Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] difficult [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's difficult to do when it 's not your language . |
| 2 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 3 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 4 | It is in fact an argument about Godwin 's ideas , and it is difficult to decide whether to assign the victory to Godwin or to the more conservative philosophy which Wordsworth was now beginning to embrace . |
| 5 | However , other cases are more complex , and it is difficult to decide whether what is at issue is underlexicalisation or metaphor : the mapping of one concept in terms borrowed from another . |
| 6 | Sometimes the purpose is simply intimidatory , as with the racist march , rather than an attempt to coerce persons into taking or not pursuing any particular course of action , and it is difficult to see that conditions could be imposed on a ‘ racist ’ march on this ground alone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For numerous studies have shown that a high percentage of the population have committed criminal offences , in particular high proportions of juveniles , and it is difficult to believe that they are all different or abnormal . |
| 9 | By day , Claxby signal box is warm and friendly and it is difficult to believe that any mysterious events could take place there . |
| 10 | The change is revolutionary , and it is difficult to believe that Freud had nothing to do with it ( though , possibly , through misunderstandings of what he said ) . |
| 11 | They came from a variety of schools and backgrounds and it is difficult to believe that their pupils are more immune to racial prejudice than those mentioned above , or that such wording does not encourage prejudice , albeit subconsciously . |
| 12 | The shelling had increased and it was difficult to sleep because of the noise and , above all , the persistence of the mosquitoes . |
| 13 | It was hard to keep any freshness in my replies , and it was difficult to examine and display my feelings . |
| 14 | They were twisted and butchered and maimed and it was difficult to see if they had been Oaks or Beeches or Elms or what . |
| 15 | The weather was warm and humid and it was difficult to believe that we were now officially in the Arctic . |
| 16 | The feeling of comfort is basic to a sense of well-being , but it is difficult to define and is often most notable in its absence . |
| 17 | Sexual discrimination is , of course , very common , but it is difficult to detect and women do n't make official complaints . |
| 18 | But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) . |
| 19 | But it is difficult to make and even more difficult to get taught properly . |
| 20 | But it is difficult to tell whether this is the fault of the Act , or due to the public backlash against young offenders . |
| 21 | But it is difficult to know whether their defence of the Masai in such cases should be attributed to the peculiarly seductive qualities of this people , or to the well-documented tendency of District Officers throughout British Africa to become closely identified , in a paternal and proprietary way , with the interests of ‘ their ’ tribe . |
| 22 | I would not wish to underestimate the capabilities of my fellow countrymen for self-deception ; but it is difficult to believe that there can be further instalments of the saga which began for the people of Great Britain with the successful revolt of the American colonies . |
| 23 | But it is difficult to believe that directors do not give at least some consideration to the impact of their decisions on employees in any event , regardless of the section . |
| 24 | IntelliDraw is hardly a low-end application , but it 's difficult to place because it 's the result of some brave lateral thinking about how people use images in practical circumstances . |
| 25 | In some cases they may explode or manage to throw off enough matter to reduce their mass below the limit and so avoid catastrophic gravitational collapse , but it was difficult to believe that this always happened , no matter how big the star . |
| 26 | Steen looked annoyed , but it was difficult to tell whether or not he had recognized the voice . |
| 27 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |