Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | that so , th that sort of policy would be very , would 've been difficult |
| 2 | A short time ago , it would have been difficult to imagine that the Conservative Party in Parliament would be in open revolt against bishops of the Church of England . |
| 3 | After several months of working full eight-hour shifts , the constables frequently forgot that an outsider was present , or no longer cared , and the fieldworker experienced moments when it would have been difficult to maintain a front . |
| 4 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 5 | It would have been difficult to estimate the extent of this use of cassettes even if the events had not been so emotionally charged . |
| 6 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 7 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 8 | But this would have been difficult because of the problem of creating the ideal pre-birth environment . |
| 9 | ( This would have been difficult as Simon was not dead . ) |
| 10 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 11 | Certainly this method of drawing has not been seen at a later date , and it would have been difficult to produce this quality and style of work in quantity . |
| 12 | It would have been difficult not to qualify for the semi-final , as sixteen were to go through ! |
| 13 | Still , he enjoyed the chairmanship and gets very cross if anyone suggests that it would have been difficult for anyone to have thrown away a Tory victory in post-Falklands Britain with a Labour Party led by Michael Foot . |
| 14 | So many players seemed to have nothing to do with the nations they were representing that asking them to picture their country would have been difficult enough , let alone vow anything to it . |
| 15 | ‘ There was so much wrong anyway with the performance it would have been difficult to know where to start . ’ |
| 16 | Without demonstrable concern for their welfare and the active promotion of an identity of interests it would have been difficult for a party of landed and industrial power to retain authority ( for an historical survey of this see McKenzie and Silver 1968 pp 42–73 ) . |
| 17 | There was so much rubbish and broken glass littered about anyway that it would have been difficult for anyone to climb out without making a lot of noise . |
| 18 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 19 | ‘ It would have been difficult for him on his own in a strange country on the other side of the world . |
| 20 | She did n't shake hands — it would have been difficult for her , anyway , sitting in the car — but as I pondered on the word ‘ princess ’ and bowed slightly , she said , ‘ So you are Doctor Masters ? |
| 21 | There is no doubt that the early growth of trade unionism was a major influence in establishing the possibility of a cohesive bond between undertakings which otherwise would have been difficult because of their commercial rivalry . |
| 22 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 23 | Steering without an effective rudder would have been difficult even with calm waters ; in the last decade the waters have been anything but calm . |
| 24 | This scene would have been difficult to show in its entirety and the one example is a very poor copy found at Welney Fen , Norfolk . |
| 25 | Indeed this would have been difficult to achieve within its methodology . |
| 26 | The transaction would have been difficult to refuse . |
| 27 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 28 | The King hardly needed to have a net laid for him , but had he done so it would have been difficult to assemble , almost in his own backyard , a more obvious team of trappers . |
| 29 | There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace . |
| 30 | Even if , however there had been a decline in the personal savings ratio , it would have been difficult to attribute it to taxation rates . |