Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Developments in industrial organization theory in the last fifteen years have shown that the effects on economic efficiency in these three areas are seldom entirely clear cut : usually there is a trade-off involved with ambiguous net effects on welfare ( price-fixing cartels are one exception , where it is extremely difficult to identify offsetting efficiency gains ) . |
| 2 | X-inefficiency can be even more of a problem in organizations producing non-marketed goods , like health and education , where it is extremely difficult to measure efficiency and where alternative sources of supply are not readily available , except to the affluent . |
| 3 | In the case of other Old Testament books — notably Samuel and Jeremiah — there are passages where it is more difficult to re-establish the original text . |
| 4 | or it 's very difficult to keep it smooth |
| 5 | Although it is sometimes difficult to decide how an objective can be measured , an obvious objective can be cited in terms of increased sales , although it is sometimes difficult to determine whether such an increase in sales was due to PR activity or to some other marketing activity . |
| 6 | Although it is sometimes difficult to decide how an objective can be measured , an obvious objective can be cited in terms of increased sales , although it is sometimes difficult to determine whether such an increase in sales was due to PR activity or to some other marketing activity . |
| 7 | Although it is very difficult to analyse soil systems quantitatively using this approach , a number of attempts have been made to solve the state factor equations and these have been reviewed by Yaalon ( 1975 ) . |
| 8 | This separation is a useful distinction , although it is often difficult to make in practice . |
| 9 | ‘ Although it 's always difficult to know whether such a survey is representative of all staff involved in National Certificate delivery , nevertheless the EIS survey does represent the views of a substantial number of lecturers , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Basses by Bernie Goodfellow Proving that it 's extremely difficult to keep a good bassmaker down , here are the latest offerings from the hands of Bernie Goodfellow … |
| 11 | There have been so many narrow escapes that it 's very difficult to say which one was the closest . |
| 12 | Says Melville , ‘ We learned that it 's very difficult to live and work together . ’ |
| 13 | If , however , you simply have a designation which says , This is E two land this is in conformity with the structure plan which , incidentally , has n't been proved in my view in relation to development pressure nor landscape quality , nevertheless you just say this is E two land , then it seems to me that it 's very difficult to argue that it is open countryside . |
| 14 | One of the problems with I twelve and the numerical content of I twelve is that it 's very difficult to differentiate between offices and services , it 's proved impossible to monitor . |
| 15 | I think the problem about having it as a a a perhaps a wine bar or something is that is that it 's very difficult to get to and I think it do n't does create problems for people but I think there is a solution there we just need to actually target the right use for it . |
| 16 | The snag is that it 's very difficult to get started , impossibly hard to master and the demands made on your system are astronomical — running Painter on a 50MHz 486 can still be painfully slow . |
| 17 | I du n no but it just that it 's so difficult to get away with it these days . |
| 18 | In the original report , however , we noted that it is not difficult to design , manufacture and market simple chip-based handhelds , especially straightforward spellcheckers . |
| 19 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 20 | For many people life today is such a bustling affair with so many things to get through in the day that it is not difficult to forget to be aware of what is around us . |
| 21 | The thick stone walls , solid oak beams , cantilever oak staircase and mullioned windows are all exceptional , and the décor and style of furnishing is so absolutely ‘ right ’ that it is not difficult to imagine that one has just ‘ stepped back in time ’ . |
| 22 | What should you do if you do n't live in London , and find that it is financially difficult to pay for such courses ? |
| 23 | He also notes that it is increasingly difficult to persuade donors that uneconomic development schemes ( and the roads and sewers that have accompanied them ) should be paid for with drug-control money . |
| 24 | This is not to limit faith , but to recognise that it is increasingly difficult to maintain a high figure based on small numbers . |
| 25 | While many of these ideas have lost some of their tenacity , the length of life of the housing stock and the sluggishness of change in urban structure means that it is particularly difficult to change house design to conform to changes in the position of women in society in general and the family in particular . |
| 26 | It is important , while acknowledging that many policies are made complex and ambiguous by the conflicts within the policy-making process , to recognize that it is intrinsically difficult to specify some policy goals in terms that will render the implementation process quite clear and unambiguous . |
| 27 | The basic premise of this approach is so startlingly simple that it is rather difficult to explain how damaging it actually is . |
| 28 | The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get any change in these kinds of laws — as the last 30 years of procedural mugging by both sides shows in relation to abortion , and the five-year gestation period of this Bill shows with regard to experimenting . |
| 29 | In fact , what might be said is , that the principles of identity and participation are so closely interrelated and intertwined in his thought that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between them . |
| 30 | We are a nation of voluntary workers and there are so many organisations that it is sometimes difficult to know which to choose to help . |