Example sentences of "it is difficult " in BNC.

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1 They help solidify state , church , and common people of varying classes into two opposing blocs from whose grasp it is difficult to escape .
2 It is difficult to describe this body accurately .
3 The trouble is , wrote Harsnet , that if you start with this insight it is difficult to go on and then the energies , the needs and desires , turn inward and eat you up .
4 But it is difficult to cook for people every day , especially when there are no other kitchen staff to cover . ’
5 Well yes , it is difficult , but so what ?
6 However , it is difficult to generate sufficient supplies !
7 Its wiry black roots go very deep and break readily , so it is difficult to eradicate .
8 In many training gliders it is difficult to demonstrate spinning and the spin may stop when the full opposite rudder is applied .
9 On the weight shift types it is difficult to give the student experience at low ‘ g ’ manoeuvres and the pilots may be badly affected without it becoming obvious .
10 for it is difficult to see how the native could have any interest in the project of unveiling what can go on existing only if it remains veiled .
11 If this is the case , it is difficult to suddenly change it , so you should switch to a diagonal attack on the closed side .
12 It is difficult to avoid the feeling that this , one of his first university essays , is purely subjective .
13 It is difficult to comprehend to what extent Leonard felt the sense of this over-arching , life-elevating principle .
14 It is difficult to react adequately to George Woodcock 's silly comment that in Leonard 's first two books of poetry ‘ the thirties urge to relate the imagery of poetry to the world we live in , as the world we dream , might never have existed . ’
15 At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life .
16 Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion .
17 Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself .
18 You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . )
19 Since brain damage can produce these very precise differences between patients , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that there is one part of the brain that has the precise function of carrying out each piece of information processing that is specified within the cognitive model .
20 It is difficult to comprehend an object that is utterly unlike itself .
21 It is difficult enough now to find any first or second round matches of any consequence in the women 's singles at almost any tournament , especially the Grand Slams .
22 You see , when you are working in plan like this it is difficult to bear in mind that machine table heights can work in your favour and they can also work against you .
23 It is difficult to get help from charities towards funeral costs .
24 It is difficult to say that such a vast group of people has special needs , and indeed many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population .
25 It is difficult to relate the proposals in the review to prospects for services for elderly people , as although it is entitled ‘ Working for Patients ’ , the Review makes little mention of health care for individuals or particular client groups .
26 Because BR is reluctant to talk about profits , it is difficult to gauge accurately how successful InterCity 's forage into the top end of the charter-train market has been , or how much the total earnings from charter traffic contribute to the sector 's overall profitability .
27 The ‘ merry-go-round ’ system which allows loading and discharge to take place while an entire train remains in motion has continued to form the mainstay of Railfreight Coal 's operations , and it is difficult to imagine a more efficient alternative .
28 It is difficult to see how anyone could notice the absence of white meat or fish with such an unending variety of tastes set before them .
29 It is difficult to equate French and British grades .
30 But on the whole they are expensive and because the RS-232 link communications is slow , it is difficult to take advantage of a GUI environment .
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