Example sentences of "difficult [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 2 | I I agree it is it 's very difficult to do when it 's not in a real life situation |
| 3 | And it 's difficult to do when it 's not your language . |
| 4 | Designs are quite difficult to convert and it is often easier to start with designs for this type of knitting . |
| 5 | King John may have been willing to agree to anything , even the dismemberment of his kingdom , in order to ensure that he did not die in prison ; but , as Professor Fowler remarked , the treaty was ‘ so preposterous that it is difficult to believe that it was ever intended seriously ’ . |
| 6 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 7 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
| 8 | A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document . |