Example sentences of "it be [adv] difficult [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although it 's always difficult to know whether such a survey is representative of all staff involved in National Certificate delivery , nevertheless the EIS survey does represent the views of a substantial number of lecturers , ’ he said . |
| 2 | erm And there are erm it 's quite difficult to read until you get used to it , but erm the title is nice and easy , could I just have a copy , erm down there ? |
| 3 | For the outsider , however , it 's often difficult to tell whether Dublin is undergoing a prolonged rock renaissance or simply wallowing in a lazy , hand-me-down hippiedom that outlived its sell by date everywhere else . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's very difficult to do because if you are n't careful you just write down a series of platitudes , but I think that a statement of aims and beliefs is very necessary even if it does look platitudinous . ’ |
| 5 | I I agree it is it 's very difficult to do when it 's not in a real life situation |
| 6 | Says Melville , ‘ We learned that it 's very difficult to live and work together . ’ |
| 7 | If , however , you simply have a designation which says , This is E two land this is in conformity with the structure plan which , incidentally , has n't been proved in my view in relation to development pressure nor landscape quality , nevertheless you just say this is E two land , then it seems to me that it 's very difficult to argue that it is open countryside . |
| 8 | And so this poor woman who was supposed to be asleep , And the problem is that er it 's very difficult to decide whether somebody 's actually unconscious or not if they ca n't move . |
| 9 | Now again it 's very difficult to say because jogging will not be any good to you unless you 're in the right condition to do jogging and unless you 've got the right conditions to jog . |
| 10 | It 's very difficult to say because we 've lost this end of the house and we 've lost the other wing . |
| 11 | John Major does seem to be somebody who — it 's very difficult to tell whether this is intrinsically , or just in comparison with Margaret Thatcher — is rather colourless . |
| 12 | it is rather difficult to know whether this is support for Krashen 's proposal or not , but it certainly implies the separation of the process of meaning construction from the determination of final output form . |
| 13 | It is equally difficult to deny that the radioactive fall-out from a nuclear explosion in fact consists of a cloud of poisonous gases . |
| 14 | Apart from the problems of precisely delimiting areas that are experiencing desertification , it is equally difficult to determine whether or not rates of desertification are increasing . |
| 15 | It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs . |
| 16 | Many people believe they know what is meant by orientalism , yet it is notoriously difficult to comprehend and to write about the whole of this protean subject . |
| 17 | However , it is notoriously difficult to capture and exhibit any legal theorist who unequivocally espouses formalism , that is who insists that the application of the general principles and rules of law to particular cases is a matter of deductive reasoning and nothing else . |
| 18 | It is also difficult to say whether a change at the top would affect the Direction des Musées de France at the heart of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 19 | It is also difficult to establish when the damage occurred . |
| 20 | But at this juncture another major problem emerges , in that it is very difficult to demonstrate that there is an established libertarian Conservative tradition with which Thatcherism and the new right can be matched . |
| 21 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 22 | It is very difficult to ascertain whether the many companies which use ROI do use it in the way proposed . |
| 23 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 24 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 25 | It is often difficult to determine whether the SPR is reporting a failure in the software , a misunderstanding , or a failure in delivered instructions . |
| 26 | It is often difficult to determine whether the SPR is reporting a failure in the software , a misunderstanding , or a failure in delivered instructions . |
| 27 | It is often difficult to establish if a site is liable to flooding and it can be easily overlooked during the site investigation . |
| 28 | The receipt of such a bonus has an effect far outside the regular annual rise , which again in the case of ICI is a matter of such Byzantine complexity that it is often difficult to know whether one is getting a good or a bad one ! |
| 29 | IT IS sometimes difficult to remember that company directors are merely the custodians of their shareholders ' money , rather than the owners of the business free to do with it what they will . |
| 30 | But they vary considerably in their anatomy and , as is often the case when considering the simpler members of a group , it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a characteristic represents a truly primitive survival or is secondarily reduced to suit a particular way of life . |