Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it is difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has its relative merits depending on the application in mind and it is difficult to recommend any one package in particular . |
| 2 | Ferranti is looking increasingly isolated in the UK defence electronics scene and it is difficult to see the institutions tolerating such an exercise or forgiving lightly the management for the International Signal and Control takeover . |
| 3 | There are many variations in temperament and it is difficult to classify them into strictly defined groups . |
| 4 | this standard differed for each category and it is difficult to see how it could be translated into a more general form . |
| 5 | The Iranians already had a considerable religious heritage and it is difficult to decide how much of Zoroastrianism is due to the reforms introduced by Zarathustra . |
| 6 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 7 | This rarely happens at present and it is difficult to see how it will become more common without active encouragement by company chairmen . |
| 8 | Lone-parent families are not a homogeneous group and it is difficult to obtain reliable estimates of the numbers of families and children involved . |
| 9 | Energy efficiency drives became popular following the oil price rises in the 1970s , and more recently in 1990 , but energy efficiency is a rather dull topic and it is difficult to sustain interest . |
| 10 | These services are subject to gradation and it is difficult to distinguish between them sometimes . |
| 11 | Sometimes you hit only one shot every hole and it is difficult to get used to it . ’ |
| 12 | It is a real test of golf and it is difficult to compare it to any other course I have played . ’ |
| 13 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 14 | Mannheim compared the meanings given to social being to the givenness of language and it is difficult to imagine the individual ‘ affiliating ’ to their first language , exactly because of its givenness to the individual as part of social being . |