Example sentences of "it is difficult [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to persuade the Court of Appeal to alter a finding of direct fact by the trial judge . |
| 2 | It is difficult to stop the film , and the language used may not be simple enough . |
| 3 | As you might expect , though , it is difficult to stop the loss of energy and plasma along the magnetic lines of force and out of the ends of these machines . |
| 4 | ( b ) It is difficult to stop the record or start it at exactly the point that the teacher wishes . |
| 5 | But the relationship between the ‘ army of administrators at their desks ’ and the eventual supply of a public service to beneficiaries in society , is so complex that it is difficult to disentangle the contributions which different strands make to an individual 's utility function . |
| 6 | It is difficult to appreciate the logic of these reproductions . |
| 7 | This is even more important in the case of homoeopathy than in the case of conventional medicine , because without an understanding of the different levels and aspects of the living being it is difficult to appreciate the differences in attitude between homoeopathy and the conventional approach . |
| 8 | In these days of piped water supply , it is difficult to appreciate the significance and importance of sources of pure water . |
| 9 | Without understanding this philosophical background it is difficult to appreciate the distinctiveness of Oakeshott 's critique of rationalism . |
| 10 | It is difficult to define the venture concept . |
| 11 | It is difficult to accrue the experience that is so essential to cope with the variety of problems presented to the rural adviser . |
| 12 | It is difficult to close the slot in light winds . |
| 13 | Mineralogy is another fairly constant sub-discipline , but it is difficult to use the term unambiguously , since there are mineralogical aspects to petrology and geochemistry . |
| 14 | Moreover , it is difficult for anyone but the manager to have available all the information he or she has taken into account at the point of decision , and hence it is difficult to monitor the manager . |
| 15 | It is difficult to remember the Britain we were elected to transform in 1979 . |
| 16 | It is difficult to remember the scale of the task facing us then . |
| 17 | It is difficult to interprete the varioations in phospholipid composition found in our study . |
| 18 | Freire 's experiment was cut short by a military coup , so it is difficult to judge the results . |
| 19 | It is difficult to judge the extent of unemployment among graduates . |
| 20 | It is difficult to judge the material of the shroud from its marble representation , for sculpture does not lend itself easily to such subtleties . |
| 21 | Within Mercia and among its traditional dependencies , it is difficult to judge the impact of the assassination of Aethelbald and the civil war of 757–8 . |
| 22 | And without the right materials it is difficult to exploit the resource to the full . |
| 23 | It is difficult to discount the evidence that Protestant theology provided important resources for those who saw in experimental science the key to human progress . |
| 24 | It is difficult to evaluate the worth of , or motives behind , the production , marketing and distribution of chemicals used for medication , food preservation or pest control . |
| 25 | It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the link programme , but we believe it has helped to broaden the perspective of both the British and the Brazilian participants . |
| 26 | Since much of our ‘ intellectual debt ’ to the originators of ideas is filtered by reading their ideas in the works of others , it is difficult to acknowledge the extent to which the originators have influenced our thinking . |
| 27 | It is difficult to resist the implication that our penal system is morally unjustifiable — morally bankrupt might not be too strong a phrase . |
| 28 | On the other hand , thirteenth-century French " dramatic monologues " which provide parallels to the mixture of metres — octosyllabic couplets and tail-rhyme stanzas — of Dame Sirith have been discovered , and it is difficult to resist the case that these had some contributory influence on the form of Dame Sirith . |
| 29 | It is difficult to resist the observation that in view of the anaemic definition of the offence , affray can not properly be characterised as being committed by a number of people fighting in public , even if that is the most commonly charged form of it . |
| 30 | It is difficult to resist the conclusion — which Foucault actually denies — that the techniques of discipline and surveillance , of individuation , and the strategies of power-knowledge that subject us , leave us always trapped . |