Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] difficult [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turn the other way , but it 's difficult to see in the mirror cos the corner 's been broke off . |
| 2 | It 's difficult to get at the timbers once you 've insulated , so get the job done properly and carry out the treatment before insulating the loft . |
| 3 | As I keep saying , it 's difficult to jump off the merry-go-round once it 's in motion . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal has the advantage ( if dealing with cases such as these after the trial judge has made the initial decision ; it is difficult to say on the basis of these cases how a trial judge at first instance should approach them . |
| 5 | The labour process , it is argued , can not be seen merely as an economic process attendant upon capitalist rationality and imposed on the workforce ; it is embedded in social and cultural practices , and without an understanding of this apparatus , particularly the meanings attached to work , it is difficult to account for the specific form of change , for the relationships between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ , and for the significance of skill and social relations at the point of production . |
| 6 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 7 | It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing . |
| 8 | Unless needs are clearly identified , it is difficult to proceed to the next stage in the ‘ training cycle ’ : planning a programme to ensure that effective use is made of available resources . |
| 9 | The part of Joy Davidman is very well played by Kay Gallie though it is difficult to take to the character in the first act of the play . |
| 10 | As prepared to leave the Basingstoke premises for the last time , she said : ‘ While it is difficult to take in the reality of the situation after all this time , we are delighted that the initials continue to have prominence under a new and synergetic banner . ’ |
| 11 | In the summer of 1979 , well before the Iran hostage crisis , Carter 's approval rating , as measured by an ABC-Harris poll , had slumped to 25 per cent and in commenting on the crisis of national leadership Lance Morrow wrote : This is to state in moderately colourful terms some of the points raised in previous pages and also addressed by Jimmy Carter himself in his memoirs : It is difficult to quarrel with the main thrust of Carter 's observations , although indiscipline within the Democratic party was hardly a new development . |
| 12 | But it was still not enough to overcome the crisis , and it is difficult to quarrel with the verdict of many of Hoover 's critics — " too little , too late " . |
| 13 | It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice . |
| 14 | Power is lacking , and the user has to be patient to get results , but it is difficult to complain for the average selling price of just over £60 . |
| 15 | It is difficult to speculate on the discrepancies with previously published studies . |
| 16 | It is difficult to move from the clown role to that of order-keeper , and so the role of other adults is important . |
| 17 | It is difficult to believe in the political naivete of judges , but Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , looking back on the short history of that court , has expressed views which are bewildering in their ingenuousness . |
| 18 | It is difficult to know about the social morality of the peasantry in the early part of the Tokugawa period , but what is clear is that by the 1850s a relatively homogeneous set of social norms prevailed throughout the peasant class , and that their value system was strongly influenced by the agrarian experience . |
| 19 | In terms of specific details of necessary improvements in health and welfare it is difficult to distinguish between the programmes of the Alliance and Labour . |
| 20 | In practice it is difficult to comply with the added condition that the company be employee controlled in each year of assessment in which interest is paid , so this relief is not often used in management buy-outs . |
| 21 | It is difficult to comment on the general effect of these developments as different industries and individual companies have been affected in different ways . |
| 22 | It is difficult to achieve at the best of times , but is , perhaps , especially problematic in education . |
| 23 | Indeed , it is difficult to think of the expression of any ideas that does not reveal a moral attitude . |
| 24 | It is difficult to generalise about the kind of people who come on the courses , but they all arrive with serious intent . |
| 25 | - If it is difficult to generalize about the style of an author , how much more difficult may it be to generalize about the style of a genre or an epoch . |
| 26 | However , as Lim and Foo ( 1987 ) argue , it is difficult to generalize on the impact of TNC employment on different groups of women even within the same society . |