Example sentences of "because it is [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Chief vet at the Fromus surgery Michael Hill said : ‘ It is not a common operation because it is often difficult to find a suitable donor dog .
2 I say ‘ perhaps ’ because it is very difficult to put one 's finger on the difference .
3 Of course we only support a tiny proportion of the proposals put to us , mainly because it is very difficult to create new and revolutionary approaches .
4 Generalisations about working-class attitudes to sexuality should not be easily drawn , precisely because it is very difficult to enter into the subjective and customary meanings .
5 Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job .
6 We restricted this to vertical movement , because it is more difficult to record horizontal movement accurately .
7 This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft .
8 The other main type of sleep — slow wave sleep — is also called ‘ deep sleep ’ because it is more difficult to raise us from .
9 Certainly , the school should not be confused with the workshop — as is frequently the case — if only because it is then difficult to credit the " school " with any real meaning .
10 Because it is so difficult to see in this dark environment , their eyes , like those of insectivorous bats , have become very small .
11 Since recruitment by its nature proceeds in waves , the fluctuations can not be avoided , and a serious problem results — all the more serious because it is so difficult to explain to outsiders .
12 ‘ I find it impossible to make my hair look neat and stylish for any length of time because it is so difficult to manage .
13 Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty .
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