Example sentences of "it difficult [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts said the statement was phrased in a way that made it difficult to confirm or refute . |
| 2 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 3 | They had found it difficult to part but , as things were getting desperate , they turned to magic and said ‘ Abracadabra , one , two , three , say the magic words and now we 're free ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions . |
| 6 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 7 | The buyer will find it difficult to argue that the clause was not agreed upon if it is contained in a document signed by him . |
| 8 | The paucity of inflammatory cells in the lamina propria that is usually seen with this type of gastritis makes it difficult to argue that the increased synthesis derives from inflammatory cells . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , but my tongue runs away with me and I find it difficult to realize that Matt is dead . ’ |
| 10 | She had a restless night and is finding it difficult to sleep because of the memories of the attack . |
| 11 | Incontinence may be caused by disease or infection , or because a person finds it difficult to reach or use a toilet . |
| 12 | If he has a facial palsy , he may find it difficult to chew and swallow , and you can help this by encouraging him to chew and clear food from the hemiplegic side of his face . |
| 13 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak . |
| 14 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak |
| 15 | Well , if you looked at the lines on the grass the blokes ' leg was definately ahead of the defence , the angle made it difficult to judge if his body was . |
| 16 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 17 | Few headteachers , let alone governors and teaching staff in schools , will have come across many of the local-authority service departments mentioned above and hence may often find it difficult to appreciate and understand the outcomes of their systems and policy-implementation decisions . |
| 18 | However , requests for admission are not always supported by adequate information , which makes it difficult to assess whether admission is appropriate ( Bastiaansen , 1976 ; Schelvis , 1977 ; Knorth , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Provided the relaxation of the previous exclusionary rule is so limited , I find it difficult to suppose that the additional cost of litigation or any other ground of objection can justify the court continuing to wear blinkers which , in such a case as this , conceal the vital clue to the intended meaning of an enactment . |
| 20 | According to Cashman of the AFCO , employers will find it difficult to plead that they were unaware that cigarette smoke caused illness , when employees sue them . |
| 21 | Whichever type of man we think of , we may find it difficult to say whether by ‘ property ’ we mean the things themselves or the aggregate of rights which are exercised over them . |
| 22 | ‘ Many of us do find it difficult to relax and that kind of thing . |
| 23 | You will find , unless there are very good reasons for doing otherwise , that here you will find it difficult to manage if you have as many as eight suspects , for no longer can your suspects be mere plaster figures . |
| 24 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 25 | Antonietta , my new friend , finds it difficult to understand that I enjoy living alone as I do , in a strange city . |
| 26 | I find it I find I must say I find it difficult to understand why you find it difficult to understand that they they chose that particular route . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Practical and ethical problems make it difficult to prove that viruses cause cancer in humans . |
| 29 | Even if we now find it difficult to accept that these were real or substantial recompenses for the life she had chosen to live we can not reasonably question that she did . |
| 30 | Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres . |