Example sentences of "[conj] it is difficult for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is due to muddy ground where it is difficult for players to get a good grip with their studs , or by a player slipping in the front row . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I am enjoying it although it is difficult for me with the customers as I do n't know the shop . ’ |
| 3 | This means for the neighbourhood man , the man on the beat , that it is difficult for him to keep a low profile . |
| 4 | Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices that it is difficult for the person at home to have adequate exercise by doing chores , cooking , and looking after a family . |
| 5 | The stock response to such qualms is that it is difficult for humans to grasp a time scale of such length . |
| 6 | One of the main problems in the discussion of the political economy of soil erosion is that it is difficult for author and reader alike to span the great variety and complexity of circumstances ( both physical and social ) under which soil erosion occurs . |
| 7 | Heading up high means that it is difficult for anyone to pass since you can always bear away down on to them , forcing them to sail in your dirty wind . |
| 8 | Far from being a luxury or a peripheral activity , music often meets basic needs : ‘ There exist a good many people for whom music is so important that it is difficult for them to conceive of life without it . |
| 9 | For people of my generation , children of the sixties , sex and freedom are so inextricably connected that it is difficult for us to accept that someone can be totally uninhibited in bed and still have a Reader 's Digest mentality . |
| 10 | To ensure that each person has a turn , but that it is difficult for those playing to predict when their number is coming up , I have a system of calling the numbers out . |
| 11 | A management may be such that it is difficult for the worker to identify in any way with them . |
| 12 | Most business people receive so much correspondence that it is difficult for them to deal with all their correspondence immediately on receipt . |
| 13 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 14 | The result is that more rather than fewer cases are created , with staff conforming rather than innovating , for they realize that it is difficult for their superiors to complain of their being too efficient or too industrious . |
| 15 | The strategy is that it is difficult for a predator to home in on its target in the confusion which follows an attack on a shoal which scatters in all directions . |
| 16 | I think that he knows that it is difficult for the Government to accept any proposal before the question of Community law is resolved , and also that his proposals are relatively controversial . |
| 17 | Does the hon. Gentleman really wish to imply that it is difficult for young children to buy cigarettes from a local corner shop ? |
| 18 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 19 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 20 | It has a more compact cellular structure so it is difficult for moisturisers to work well on the epidermis . |
| 21 | Furthermore , none of the alleys are straight , so it is difficult for bowlers to be accurate . |
| 22 | It is difficult to understand the politics within some controlling bodies without knowing all the details and it is difficult for me to comment . |
| 23 | He argues that bad garages drive out good ones because the typical customer can not judge whether a service has been done properly , and it is difficult for him to check . |
| 24 | Mr X was found guilty and sentenced in May 1981 , and it is difficult for anyone who reads the story as laid out in the pages of the BBPS to see how his guilt could have been established beyond reasonable doubt , in view of the conflicting scientific evidence . |
| 25 | But life moves on , times and lifestyles change and it is difficult for some to change with them . |
| 26 | A well trimmed model is much easier to fly and it is difficult for the beginner to trim a model without help . |
| 27 | There is a great deal of talk nowadays of global warming , the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , the destruction of the ozone layer and so on , and it is difficult for an ordinary person to know what is going on , when even the scientists can not agree . |
| 28 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 29 | They matter , too , to the curriculum of younger age-groups — and it is difficult for any manager to justify omitting the primary school teacher from the long term planning of vocational education . |
| 30 | The documentation provided is oriented towards computer people and it is difficult for users to translate many of these forms used in conventional systems documentation into their ‘ language ’ . |