Example sentences of "difficulty [be] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty is that every handful of weed that 's pulled out is likely to contain its fair share of aquatic creatures too . |
| 2 | The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page . |
| 3 | The difficulty is that a like conditional ( derived from the independent conditional ( 6 ) also set out in 1.3 ) may well be true of b . |
| 4 | Another difficulty is that a third of Asian patients disappeared from contact with services , and although this was not considered statistically significant , in percentage terms they had the highest attrition rate of the three groups . |
| 5 | The difficulty is that a recruitment system has to be both a production system and an information system , and this is what makes it so much more complex than personnel records . |
| 6 | Mr Coutts said : ‘ The difficulty is that an individual such as this is fuelled by publicity . ’ |
| 7 | The difficulty is that the wife has died intestate , and her intestate heir is precisely the person she was asked to ward off from her property . |
| 8 | The difficulty is that the grammar of the disposition suggests that it should be the curator , but the reference to ‘ his , nurses can surely be meant to refer only to the foster-child ; and the last sentence of the text confirms that it is the foster-child who is intended . |
| 9 | The difficulty is that the Earl of Orford , who did not die until 5 December 1791 , was named George , while his uncle who succeeded him as fourth Earl was named Horatio , although he disliked this name , and called himself Horace Walpole instead . |
| 10 | Another difficulty is that the plasma pressure so far confined in a tokamak appears to be a rather low fraction of the magnetic field pressure , but the upper limit — very important for reactors — has not been established . |
| 11 | Another difficulty is that the geological maps of Britain are out of date . |
| 12 | The difficulty is that the letters written at the time by Wordsworth , while full of references to ‘ God ’ and ‘ fortitude ’ , can hardly be described as pious . |
| 13 | The third difficulty is that the criteria which a lender uses to differentiate between borrowers he is prepared to accept and borrowers he judges too risky may , as it were , throw out the sheep with the goats . |
| 14 | Part of the difficulty is that the same environmental factors which predispose children to middle-ear infections may contribute independently to developmental delay . |
| 15 | The difficulty is that the bacteria is notorious for changing itself and every time scientists think they are on the verge of a development the bacteria becomes resistant . |
| 16 | The difficulty is that the applicability of such general principles is subject to divergent interpretations ; in the absence of any authoritative international bodies entitled to give an impartial view , Cassese argues that ‘ the implementation of the general principles on weapons turns on the military strength of belligerents : strong States can dodge the bans without fear . |
| 17 | The difficulty is that the sites which have been extensively excavated , and so produced the largest quantities of pottery , such as Corbridge and Newstead , are multi-period , and the stratification of the excavations early in the century , consequently suspect . |
| 18 | One immediate difficulty is that the weight attached to it by different historians has varied enormously . |
| 19 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 20 | One difficulty is that the approach is not sufficiently general : many words do not in any straightforward way denote classes of potential referents ( consider air , some , usually , however ) . |
| 21 | The main difficulty is that the theory is only valid if our society is a just one in which all citizens are genuinely equal ; otherwise there is no equilibrium of equality for punishment to restore . |
| 22 | The difficulty is that the indicators of this integration which are capable of being treated quantitatively ( to enable such a comparison ) are likely to be culturally determined and to vary from one community to another . |
| 23 | The difficulty is that the world is so full of a number of things that there are many difficult names to be learnt ; chemistry seems necessarily to involve a rebarbative vocabulary . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that the violence referred to by the subsection must be immediate ‘ unlawful ’ violence , and a person is entitled to employ a certain amount of force in the protection of his property . |
| 25 | The main difficulty is that the non-business sector is not a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 26 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 27 | One experimental difficulty is that the solar corona has a finite refractive index ( varying as 1/ ( frequency ) 2 ) and the effect of the corona is to increase the delay . |
| 28 | Our difficulty is that the contractual position is clearer than unfair dismissal law so employers can sometimes , though by no means always , achieve the same result by issuing notices of dismissal and offering new contracts of employment . |
| 29 | The difficulty is that the two contributions made opposite points . |
| 30 | A bigger difficulty is that the premature announcement of merger talks may tempt other firms into bidding for one or both . |