Example sentences of "it has [be] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But generally speaking , it has been difficult since September 1988 . |
| 2 | ‘ But generally speaking , it has been difficult since September 1988 . |
| 3 | Although it has been difficult to achieve improved performance , Martin Houldin of KPMG 's environment unit , remains confident that the initiative is progressing well . |
| 4 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 5 | In the past it has been difficult for them to have long runs in the team . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I confess myself bewildered by it all — since my lord 's death , you see , it has been difficult to determine one 's friends from one 's enemies ! ’ |
| 7 | As far as the effect of knowledge about language on pupils ' own language skill is concerned , it is true that it has been difficult or impossible to show any direct cause-and-effect relation between teaching formal grammar and improved writing performance . |
| 8 | The Far East is also an important area but it has been difficult to find firms of the requisite standard who are independent . |
| 9 | Without such models it has been difficult to determine what the properties of these cortical areas should be . |
| 10 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 11 | With a limited budget it has been difficult to acquire top quality works by artists on the museum 's list , however they have been fortunate in being able to purchase Robert Loder 's ( Honorary Curator of Prints , Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ) collection of 363 prints , while other works were acquired from Marlborough Fine Art . |
| 12 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 13 | Until this date , it has been difficult to escape from a picture of the women compositors as the subject of other people 's discourse : employers , trade unionists , parliamentary commissioners , commentators like Macdonald , organizers like Margaret Irwin . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he says that it has been difficult to avoid the wholesale abandonment of a fascinating liturgical and musical tradition which had sound scholarly foundations . |
| 15 | Such is the wealth of historical literature that it has been difficult to decide what to give in notes in this chapter . |
| 16 | In the past it has been difficult to obtain statistical information relating to publishing because the final analysis of the census of production data always produced figures that bracketed publishing with printing . |
| 17 | One reason for this lack of information is that it has been difficult to obtain pure enzymes that are sufficiently active under in vitro conditions . |
| 18 | It has been difficult to decide on a speciality for the whole country and the Comlon Board has accepted that regional differences may require a change in attitude . |
| 19 | It has been difficult to establish the impact and cumulative effects of the global recession and foreign indebtedness , but an International Labour Office report gives some idea . |
| 20 | There are many reasons why it has been difficult for researchers to form links with universities , he says , with some not even sure that particular departments would survive investigations into the competence and integrity of the professors . |
| 21 | Although the possibility that inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase results in diversion of the substrate arachidonic acid down 5-lipoxygenase pathways has been much discussed it has been difficult to confirm . |
| 22 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 23 | It has been difficult , and I regret it , but it was unavoidable . |
| 24 | ‘ Watching from the sidelines , it has been difficult to put a finger on what has really gone wrong . |
| 25 | Up until now it has been difficult to have the best of both worlds when it comes to running one of the more expensive 4x4 off-road vehicles . |