Example sentences of "difficult to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 2 | It 's difficult to be an entrepreneur , I believe , by simply following a well-trodden path . |
| 3 | Laing acknowledges that the up-and-coming generation of managers are faced with a much faster-paced world than operated in most of his life , but he is not convinced it is any more difficult to be an executive today than in the past . |
| 4 | On this type of water it can become the luck of the draw with so many small fish out numbering the larger carp and it is difficult to be selective . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the violence , the girls told me it was difficult to be friendly with white girls . |
| 6 | It was , he felt , just too difficult to be at home at all , with Claudia in a permanently bitchy mood and both his teenage children taking their cue from her and behaving intolerably . |
| 7 | Go much below that and the monitoring problems are vastly complicated by natural upsets , like earthquakes and even man-made chemical explosions ( which would also make a comprehensive test ban pretty difficult to be sure of ) . |
| 8 | For not only are they bad for women — who find it difficult to be canonized unless they are nuns , queens or martyrs — but equally they form another monolith . |
| 9 | Vic 's easy manner made it difficult to be annoyed for long . |
| 10 | In terms of social composition , it is difficult to be more specific because ‘ farmer ’ covers a considerable diversity of wealth and social status . |
| 11 | I realise that there are many young Asian women living in Britain today who might find it difficult to be different from their friends at school . |
| 12 | The Roman emperors of the later third century AD made very similar coins at a number of mints , and it is difficult to be sure about their correct attribution . |
| 13 | It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated . |
| 14 | On balance the Tory ideas on the National Health Service and on the state system of education seem preferable to those of Labour , but without being an expert it is difficult to be sure . |
| 15 | It is difficult to be optimistic about the prospect of a major breakthrough . |
| 16 | He sounds a further note of caution : ‘ It is sometimes difficult to be sure you are sending your cars to be serviced at a garage that is properly equipped to deal with diesel vehicles and has appropriately trained staff . ’ |
| 17 | It 's always difficult to be aware of other people 's pain when we are hurt ourselves . |
| 18 | Parents ' groups come and go whether or not there are CMHTs and it is difficult to be precise about the CMHT contribution in this field . |
| 19 | It is difficult to be sure , but we might guess that they are becoming increasingly rare . |
| 20 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 21 | Mould found it difficult to be so quiet . |
| 22 | Working on so small a piece of basic material , it was remarkably difficult to be sure we had correctly identified the genes . |
| 23 | I find it very difficult to be of assistance , sergeant . |
| 24 | Even if scientists could demonstrate such a correlation , it would still be difficult to be certain whether the effect were the result of social or genetic transmission . |
| 25 | It was difficult to be sure where this left the objectives of the Uprising . |
| 26 | It is difficult to be precise about the outcome , but again the general impression seems to be that there has been no significant and continuing deterioration , and some well-placed observers thought that behaviour had , on the whole , improved . |
| 27 | Although every ideology forms its own criteria and language of evaluation , it is doubly difficult to be discriminating and to carry through a particular form of objectivity when reading accounts of conservation in socialist or ‘ socialist ’ countries . |
| 28 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |
| 29 | In assessing the effect of an anti-pain therapy , it is obviously important but difficult to be certain that the treatment has not simply prevented the animal from displaying the sign . |
| 30 | Looking ahead , Sanderson believes it is ‘ difficult to be very optimistic about 1992 ’ . |