Example sentences of "and it is difficult [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 10 years things change so much , and it is difficult to name one player . |
| 2 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 3 | Few were noted as making prolonged stays and it is difficult to assign any particular record as a wintering or passage bird . |
| 4 | The land speculation lobby is extremely powerful both economically and politically in most countries and it is difficult to implement any policy that harms its interest . |
| 5 | ‘ You learn quickly that to show your feelings — whether anger , fear or sadness — leaves you open to ridicule and it is difficult to shake that habit in later life . |
| 6 | We have all gone through the same system ( which seems not to have harmed us ) , and it is difficult to accept that current students should be taught differently . |
| 7 | Each has its relative merits depending on the application in mind and it is difficult to recommend any one package in particular . |
| 8 | Moreover the amount of the penalty seems derisory — at any rate in the case of public companies — and it is difficult to believe that , as a deterrent against failing to file on time , this new sanction will prove any more effective than those that the Registrar formerly had and still has . |
| 9 | Sometimes you hit only one shot every hole and it is difficult to get used to it . ’ |
| 10 | There are many groups ( 4000 in Birmingham alone ) and it is difficult to boil all interests down to something called " class " ; on a number of issues ( and at certain levels of the state ) we can discover a pattern of competitive interest-group politics in which no one group appears to be overwhelmingly dominant ; and on occasions the state does simply referee the group struggle and is content to ratify the outcome of the balance of competing forces . |
| 11 | The use of cool boxes was so rare that we can not comment on their potential effectiveness , and it is difficult to obtain small cool boxes of known effectiveness in Britain . |
| 12 | Lone-parent families are not a homogeneous group and it is difficult to obtain reliable estimates of the numbers of families and children involved . |