Example sentences of "[vb base] it difficult [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , but my tongue runs away with me and I find it difficult to realize that Matt is dead . ’ |
| 3 | Provided the relaxation of the previous exclusionary rule is so limited , I find it difficult to suppose that the additional cost of litigation or any other ground of objection can justify the court continuing to wear blinkers which , in such a case as this , conceal the vital clue to the intended meaning of an enactment . |
| 4 | I find it I find I must say I find it difficult to understand why you find it difficult to understand that they they chose that particular route . |
| 5 | Regulators find it difficult to ensure that the regulated really do produce on the lowest possible cost curve . |
| 6 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 7 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 8 | I find it difficult to believe that a male Oscar would let a female spawn on her own — unless she was so much larger than him that he dare not go near . |
| 9 | I find it difficult to believe that intervention is of necessity harmful . |
| 10 | I find it difficult to believe that we can improve on trying to establish competitive markets within the framework of a rule of law . |
| 11 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 12 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 13 | I find it difficult to believe that a bank like the NatWest ca n't offer any more appropriate type of account than this ‘ small business account ’ |
| 14 | It does n't really want to and I find it difficult to believe and I 'm not sure I want to because I feel so fucking drained and sore , but the thing 's actually responding , fattening and firming and rising in her kneading , soap-slick hands . |
| 15 | I do n't think so and I I find it difficult to believe and disappointing to believe that as many man are would deliberately spoil their vote . |
| 16 | Even if we now find it difficult to accept that these were real or substantial recompenses for the life she had chosen to live we can not reasonably question that she did . |
| 17 | Yet , somehow , because the mind of another creature is such alien territory to us , we find it difficult to accept that such mental activity and subjective sensory awareness , really is going on . |
| 18 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 19 | ‘ I agree , yet somehow I find it difficult to accept that you live entirely by that principle . ’ |
| 20 | At the other end , advertisers find it difficult to admit that they are supposed to be addressing an audience in middle age and onwards . |
| 21 | Practical and ethical problems make it difficult to prove that viruses cause cancer in humans . |