Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to see that as anything other than an attempt to intimidate the BBC . |
| 2 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 3 | Politically , any alternative would obviously have been extremely difficult to implement while among the economists in the Economic Section the allure of Keynesian economics easily distracted attention from microeconomic problems and the need to understand how economic institutions actually worked . |
| 4 | Part of the explanation lies in the greater liquidity of the second-hand market for residential dwellings ; corporate assets are more difficult to resell because of difficulties in ascertaining quality . |
| 5 | Quill pens , properly cut and ready to use , are difficult to obtain but worth the trouble if you want to make good ink drawings . |
| 6 | Deviance arises when stimulation and enjoyment are difficult to obtain except through the fetish . |
| 7 | In contemporary societies , goods which are difficult to obtain because of their exotic origins vie with highly priced goods in competing status systems . |
| 8 | What she saw was a ruddy face not associated with the effects of the sun , but it was still difficult to know whether to be flattered or annoyed . |
| 9 | A cheerful , bright , colourful rendezvous , difficult to find but worth the effort . |
| 10 | While this approach might appear to be the treatment of choice for many adolescent self-poisoners , in practice , family therapy is often difficult to establish because of the reluctance of some family members to become involved . |
| 11 | Hot spots appear to be rather irregularly distributed over the Earth 's surface ( Fig. 4.4 ) but the real pattern is difficult to establish because of the problems of identifying specific hot spots and incomplete data in some regions . |
| 12 | English is , of course , not a tone language , and the function of tone is much more difficult to define than in a tone language . |
| 13 | It is true that the early coastal attacks may have been difficult to counter because of uncertainty about where they would occur , and that interception at sea depended on the availability of reliable intelligence . |
| 14 | The academic course is extremely difficult to characterise because of the multiplicity of higher education courses taken by future language teachers ; and it is becoming more so , as the predominance of the ‘ traditional ’ literature course is weakened . |
| 15 | In addition , questions of quality in the British context are particularly difficult to answer because of the complexity and range of services provided by the NHS and the wide-ranging but incomplete responsibilities health authorities have for the health of their populations . |
| 16 | Any increase in cancer with a particular antihypertensive drug will be difficult to detect because of both the dearth of large scale clinical trials which directly compare different treatments and the relative infrequency of cancer in prospective studies . |
| 17 | Agreement on that process was more difficult to reach than on the technology , according to one of the six . |
| 18 | Former lorry driver Leonard Marder finds it difficult to walk because of an infected leg caused by varicose veins . |
| 19 | All we can say is that logical , easily perceptible solutions are always preferable to enigmatic ones , which may have forms so difficult to perceive that to the listener they seem formless . |
| 20 | It is now difficult to imagine that at this time virtually all the academic departments were based in the Trent Building |
| 21 | They are very fast in light to medium winds , but rather difficult to sail because of their rounded shape . |
| 22 | Sutton 's writings are difficult to identify and to date , and some have in the past been confused with writings of Thomas Aquinas . |
| 23 | On April 24 , 1990 , the government legalized the Eastern Rite Catholic Church , although the return of church buildings taken over by the Orthodox Church remained difficult to resolve because of uncertainties over the current number of Uniates . |
| 24 | These systems worked well but were very difficult to justify because of the high cost of the equipment and low value of the savings ( being mostly space savings from removing filing cabinets ) . |
| 25 | The shelling had increased and it was difficult to sleep because of the noise and , above all , the persistence of the mosquitoes . |
| 26 | She had a restless night and is finding it difficult to sleep because of the memories of the attack . |
| 27 | I 'm not a convinced believer , I just do n't find it difficult to credit that in these very ancient sites of occupation , where such emotional things are known to have happened , people should develop special sensitivities , racial memories , hypernormal sympathies , whatever you like to call them . |
| 28 | So , so sort of technically , politically that would have been quite difficult to do because of the manpower involved etcetera |
| 29 | Moreover , there are common types of table which are quite difficult to read because of special features . |
| 30 | The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind . |