Example sentences of "be difficult [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if scientists could demonstrate such a correlation , it would still be difficult to be certain whether the effect were the result of social or genetic transmission . |
| 2 | In true Eko fashion the guitars have bound fingerboards , zero frets and aluminium nuts/string-guides , and although it 's difficult to be sure , the fingerboard material is so dense and dark — almost black — that it could well be that rare and prized commodity , Brazilian , or Rio , rosewood . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 4 | First of all , I think that it it 's difficult to be sure of this because of the way in which the County Council prepared their the evidence on which I relayed relied and like Mr I did n't come here prepared to talks in detail about the inner northern . |
| 5 | erm it 's difficult to be sure . |
| 6 | " It 's difficult to be patient when you 're dying of hypothermia . " |
| 7 | Until that budget is actually er , settled , it 's difficult to be definitive about the actual amount of money that 's available for the purchasing plan for ninety four , ninety five . |
| 8 | IT 'S difficult to be objective about a match that was as one-sided as a two-headed coin . |
| 9 | While it is difficult to be firm about the exact numbers required , the generally accepted " bed norm " in Scotland for geriatric psychiatry beds specifically for the confused elderly is as recommended in Timbury , that is to say 10 beds per 1,000 population aged 65+ . |
| 10 | On this type of water it can become the luck of the draw with so many small fish out numbering the larger carp and it is difficult to be selective . |
| 11 | The Roman emperors of the later third century AD made very similar coins at a number of mints , and it is difficult to be sure about their correct attribution . |
| 12 | On balance the Tory ideas on the National Health Service and on the state system of education seem preferable to those of Labour , but without being an expert it is difficult to be sure . |
| 13 | It is difficult to be sure , but we might guess that they are becoming increasingly rare . |
| 14 | As every parent knows , children 's eating habits can be unpredictable and when your child is away from home it is difficult to be sure what they are eating . |
| 15 | ‘ Until we know how your son died it is difficult to be sure what is or is not relevant . |
| 16 | It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state . |
| 17 | Its magnitude is officially given as below 9 , so that it should be invisible with binoculars ; I have suspected it with × 12 or higher magnification , but it is difficult to be sure , as there are scattered disconnected stars around . |
| 18 | Remains of older persons present more of a problem , and when dealing with earlier populations , it is difficult to be sure that significant age-changes took place at the same time , and that they showed the same group variability , as in modem populations . |
| 19 | erm at the end of a metre is difficult to be sure , but it 's somewhere between ten thousand years and fifty thousand years in these deposits , to give you a rough idea of the kind of length of time we 're talking about . |
| 20 | Many studies have been performed using in vitro tests and it is difficult to be certain of the relevance of these tests to platelet function in vivo . |
| 21 | Spokesman Andrew Davis said : ‘ We believe freak weather conditions may have caused an inversion , but it is difficult to be certain at this stage . |
| 22 | In the absence of a greater range of evidence it is difficult to be certain about how representative the Sutton Hoo mound 1 boat is of the range of ship types . |
| 23 | Now , they were combined and synthesized on aesthetic principles which apparently did not always depend on the content of the subject matter , although it is difficult to be certain in an area such as this . |
| 24 | A variety of wording is used and it is difficult to be certain how such clauses will be interpreted ; but the change in judicial attitudes just noted would suggest that they will fare better than did the clause in Anisminic . |
| 25 | It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin . |
| 26 | It is difficult to be certain of the impact of unemployment upon women . |
| 27 | Never use detergent for cleaning , as it is difficult to be certain when all traces have been removed . |
| 28 | It is difficult to be certain from the passage whether Hezarfen believes there to have been official muftiliks at all in the fifteenth century , but he is clear on the point that the arrangements for whether formal or informal , were similar in the three cities . |
| 29 | From the demonstration alone , it is difficult to be certain that the motion is chaotic , in the specific sense that the word is now used , and not just very complicated . |
| 30 | It 's no use charging on with , say , 83 stitches one side of ) and 81 on the other side , as it is difficult to be accurate with the increases or decreases when you are forever making mental adjustments . |