Example sentences of "but it 's [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sounds a lot of money , but it 's not difficult to spend it on an airline . |
| 2 | In an older house , it can sometimes be difficult to get the shower tray level but it 's always difficult to get a good and permanent seal between the shower tray and the tiled walls . |
| 3 | Really I prefer abstract art , but it 's more difficult to sell . |
| 4 | But it 's often difficult to see for yourself how much is in your account . |
| 5 | But it 's very difficult to say to people , ‘ Go back into your offices and rock your handset ’ , because it 's the last thing on your mind , especially after a boring afternoon like this , all you want to do is get in there , do as little as possible and go home ! |
| 6 | She says after each of these cases people say you should do something but it 's very difficult to see what you could do . |
| 7 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 8 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 9 | Dan could hum what he wanted but it 's very difficult to play that sort of thing . ’ |
| 10 | What 's in it for the businesses is this : at the moment they can see Eastern Europe as an emerging market , but it 's very difficult to get in there because the hard cash and the skills that they need do n't exist in those countries , but they want to do something , they want to demonstrate their interest , they want to make contact , and what Enterprise Europe gives them is the opportunity to make a good business contact amongst one the young generation of er of business leaders in those countries er in order , and keep those contacts in order that when they do have an opportunity to go into those markets they 've got some young people there to start off with . |
| 11 | erm it does take a lot of effort to move over to meeting them as individual people , and once you 've understood that they are individual people and you get to know their interests and get to know your common humanity , then that 's the point where you want to get on and do something more , but it 's very difficult to recognise the common humanity , and a lot of |
| 12 | In addition , a number of people who have gone through our study seminars keep in touch with us and tell us that they are using some of the things they 've learned here to be exposed here for their own work , but it 's very difficult to tell . |
| 13 | It 's fairly easy for someone to call you that , but it 's fairly difficult to convince yourself that you are . |
| 14 | C64 Starballs features some great animation , but it 's damned difficult to explain exactly what 's going on . |