Example sentences of "that it was difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality of the recipes was such that it was difficult to choose which to publish . |
| 2 | A possible reason is that it was difficult to get arms and ammunition to the right place , despite the virtual absence of border controls between Germany and its western neighbours . |
| 3 | There were so many possessions in it , brought from his old home in Fiesole by Mr Browning to make the old gentleman feel as familiar as possible , that it was difficult to move about . |
| 4 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 5 | So thin , in fact , that it was difficult not to share the view of Rogan Taylor , former chairman of the FSA , that the FA 's real motive was to restore Hillsborough 's status in support of their bid for the finals of the 1996 European Championship . |
| 6 | South African captain Kepler Wessels 's verdict on his side 's 107-run defeat was that it was difficult to go straight into an international match without a warm-up game . |
| 7 | It has already been pointed out that it was difficult for many part-time farmers to get time away from their jobs so adult training normally took place in the evenings and at weekends . |
| 8 | But so vast was the scale of the enterprise and to a certain extent so obvious the direction of the streets , that it was difficult to prevent would-be profiteers from benefiting . |
| 9 | She was very afraid of taking weight through her left leg , and could only feel deep sensations on her left side , so that it was difficult for her to know where her arm and leg were in space . |
| 10 | The next morning , I was so stiff that it was difficult to climb downstairs . |
| 11 | The Builder complained that it was difficult to identify the separate sets of drawings and there were also complaints about the lack of light , while some drawings , like Scott 's principal view , were placed so high that they could not be seen properly . |
| 12 | Managers found that it was difficult to compete with the Scottish factories . |
| 13 | Most of our Shetlander informants stressed that it was difficult to talk about groups or categories among Shetlanders . |
| 14 | When I first set up home on my own I had so many bits of ill-assorted furniture that various friends and relatives had given me , that it was difficult to ever imagine having a beautiful home . |
| 15 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 16 | A jerking pop star was wielding his guitar as the credits rolled , his parodic sexual gyrations so grotesque that it was difficult to see that even the besotted young could find them erotic . |
| 17 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 18 | The day was a continuous series of interruptions so that it was difficult for clients to have any real period of rest and quiet . |
| 19 | Pannell Kerr Forster 's Tony Foreman cautioned that it was difficult to see an exit route from property zone trusts and wealthy clients were inclined to put £40,000 in the BES before considering such schemes . |
| 20 | She found that it was difficult to stand ; she put out her hand to the wall to support herself lest she sway . |
| 21 | The curve of size against strength was rising so rapidly ( Figure 1 ) that it was difficult to ascertain 8 maximum or upper limit to the strength . |
| 22 | But the survey showed that it was difficult to judge whether standards of spelling were going up or down . |
| 23 | That it was difficult was of no surprise to the duty obstetrician . |
| 24 | The children were wedged so tightly that it was difficult to move . |
| 25 | The three of them were so smoke begrimed and blackened that it was difficult to tell what they were wearing but two of them appeared to be dressed in white while the third was in a navy blue overall . |
| 26 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 27 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 28 | As Brian Harrison has pointed out , the peculiar nature of the problem as conceived by the moral reformers — as an individual moral failing from which social consequences flowed — meant that it was difficult to evolve administrative machinery to carry out their aims . |
| 29 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |
| 30 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |