Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , I expect it 's difficult to manage without harming them . ’ |
| 2 | Back home the family say it 's difficult to understand why he went . |
| 3 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
| 4 | Unlike other garden features , once sited it is difficult to move . |
| 5 | It says it is difficult to explain why the rising divorce rate seems to have affected men 's suicide rate but not women 's . |
| 6 | He says it is difficult to sustain solidarity here : the daily attrition of labour , exhaustion and hunger undermine the will of even the most committed . |
| 7 | Even when this is done it is difficult to compare the effectiveness of hospital units with perinatal mortality rates because of the increasingly small subset of perinatal deaths that are amenable to medical intervention . |
| 8 | Well as I 've said it 's difficult to comment different situation the physical features are different . |
| 9 | Whether this was a result of the improved economic conditions on one hand or the introduction of pro-natalist measures it is difficult to assess . |
| 10 | Well I 'll he look it 's difficult to get the last bit out of soup cups , I 'll help you . |
| 11 | Once credibility is challenged it is difficult to justify selectively . |
| 12 | I know it is difficult to discuss a scientific topic nowadays without dragging in recombinant DNA somehow , but I can not conceive of even the most tenuous connection between genetic engineering and the quantum theory . |
| 13 | ‘ I know it 's difficult to talk , but I do n't have to tell you that time is short . |
| 14 | Rather important that one you know , a street lamp out for six weeks , though I know it 's difficult getting in touch with exactly the right department and whose responsibility it is . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's difficult to accept what has happened , ’ I said in an unctuously compassionate tone . |
| 16 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 17 | Jeff Jaye with ‘ I know it 's difficult to get the wood , Mr Noah , but can you imagine the cost of a rotomoulded Ark ? ’ and Simon Dawson with ‘ Shaun Baker comes out of retirement to offer advice on the last great waterfall . ’ |
| 18 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 19 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 20 | Whilst there is broad agreement on individual risk guideline figures it is difficult to do the same for societal risk . |
| 21 | Given his detailed control of programmes of study and attainment targets it is difficult to envisage credible examinations that would not reflect these . |
| 22 | From the rattles and clunks it 's difficult to tell what 's happening , but I switch on the cassette recorder in case . |
| 23 | By doing this you are making it far easier for yourself to judge exactly when you should tack for the mark , since if you take the other tack it is difficult to judge how much the current will sweep you down . |
| 24 | To cite the now familiar evidence of mosaics from ( soil it is difficult to believe that the mosaic which features Bacchus in a square central panel amid an arrangement of saltires and interlaced squares ( Parlasca 1959 , pI . |
| 25 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 26 | It is not easy to see It is difficult to see |
| 27 | When taut , no problem , but as the trees starts falling it is difficult to take up the slack , thus a backwards tumble into the shrubbery . |
| 28 | So I , I think it 's difficult to sustain the same kind of relationship . |
| 29 | I think it 's difficult to say that , but erm we feel that the British protection was very important for the erm sovereignty , for maintaining the external sovereignty of Kuwait , but our internal affairs has always been within the Kuwaiti community . |
| 30 | I think it 's difficult to make friends |