Example sentences of "that it [is] difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auditing profession er argues , and I must say the audit practice board 's er er proposals are very , for very passive auditing , the audit profession argues that it 's difficult to detect fraud but on the other hand er the local government er act er local government finance act of nineteen eighty two requires local authority auditors to have er er er a duty to search for unlawful acts and report on them . |
| 2 | The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground . |
| 3 | We play football and I score a goal , mainly because everyone except Stewpid is playing so badly that it 's difficult to miss … . |
| 4 | Well I think that it 's difficult to say exactly what kind of an institution the European Parliament will turn out to be . |
| 5 | Both the exhibition and the Show reminded us forcibly that it 's difficult to get away from politics in China . |
| 6 | Their two main disadvantages are that they can discolour with time unless an ultra-violet light stabiliser is incorporated in the plastic , and that it 's difficult to fit security devices to them ( make sure good locks are fitted as standard by the manufacturer and frames are strengthened ) . |
| 7 | Just those and erm small and that it 's difficult to find , those are like the very small ones , they have a picture on there . |
| 8 | No one denies that it 's difficult to diet , especially at the beginning . |
| 9 | The two sets are so interwoven that it is difficult to claim they are separate . |
| 10 | Hence the optimists believe that it is difficult to visualise circumstances better suited to a successful devaluation than the ones currently offered . |
| 11 | Undoubtedly there are differences in people 's experiences of support between grandparents and grandchildren , but we have so little up-to-date evidence on this issue that it is difficult to say how far such experiences vary systematically according to gender , ethnicity or social class . |
| 12 | We may say , in fact , that the onomatopoeic effect is here overdone , resulting in a sentence which is so cluttered with consonants , that it is difficult to say aloud . |
| 13 | As a result , fossil bone accumulations are usually so much more fragmentary than undamaged pellet assemblages that it is difficult to compare them . |
| 14 | When hon. Members read the fact sheet attached to my statement , they will see that it is difficult to compare like with like . |
| 15 | The dilemma is that it is difficult to take avoiding action : if activities are cut back there is no way of retaining or regaining market position — if activities are increased that means more spending and more risks . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is difficult to take Labour seriously on unemployment when under its policy inflation would rise following increases in public expenditure and our competitiveness in world markets would diminish ? |
| 17 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 18 | Although the method has drawbacks , particularly that it is difficult to eliminate duplications from the results , it has the merits of being simple , and giving reasonably consistent results with a number of observers and being readily repeated . |
| 19 | Some of his well-wishers have pointed out that it is difficult to use relations as general as these to provide more than schematic explanations , and have attempted to define them more precisely . |
| 20 | However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime . |
| 21 | The Timber Trade Federation has admitted that it is difficult to define and verify sustainability , and there are signs that several major retailers are planning to cease making such claims . |
| 22 | We have so distorted our conception of higher education that it is difficult to realize the point . |
| 23 | So common is this way of thinking in social research that it is difficult to recapture its radical and innovative character . |
| 24 | The problem is made worse by the fact that it is difficult to detect in yourself . |
| 25 | So much of his work has been lost that it is difficult to appreciate its impact , but with the backing of the ambitious mayor , Edmund Lockyer , he extensively transformed both Plymouth itself and its satellite towns of Stonehouse and Devonport . |
| 26 | It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries . |
| 27 | While most admit that it is difficult to draw hard and fast distinctions between constitutional types , others have actively rejected the constitutional-legal classification of states into federal and unitary as ultimately futile . |
| 28 | Under SSAP 24 and UITF 6 these long-term obligations are accounted for on a full provision basis , even though in many cases it is likely that they will continually roll over , and it has been argued that it is difficult to justify a prohibition , as SSAP 15 would otherwise require , on the related deferred tax being treated on a similar basis if it , too , continually rolls over . |
| 29 | Under SSAP 24 and UITF 6 these long-term obligations are accounted for on a full provision basis , even though in many cases it is likely that they will continually roll over ( ie as one obligation is settled another will arise ) and it has been argued that it is difficult to justify a prohibition , as SSAP 15 would otherwise require , on the related deferred tax being treated on a similar basis if it , too , continually rolls over . |
| 30 | Critics , however , have argued that it is difficult to envisage any conception of a state which does not incorporate a purposive quality . |