Example sentences of "it 's [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 .
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