Example sentences of "to the difficulty of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognition of cursive handwriting is especially prone to errors due to the difficulty of determining the correct segmentation of a word . |
| 2 | Other factors , of course , contribute to the difficulty of effecting a corporate approach . |
| 3 | While all presidents have testified to the difficulty of shifting the course of the bureaucracy , the task was made even more difficult for Nixon by the direct clash between the political philosophy of his administration and that prevailing in the bureaucracy , particularly the social-services agencies . |
| 4 | Another concern related to the difficulty of providing information on the productivity of the R&D expenditure incurred . |
| 5 | The Villain is a bit buzzy , too , often a problem with 24-fret 5-stringers due to the difficulty of getting three and a half octaves worth of notes to perform equally . |
| 6 | But the greater birthweight variability within monozygous twins merely adds to the difficulty of distinguishing between the effects of genes and early environment , and is a further reason for distrusting estimates of heritability derived from twin studies . |
| 7 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , these circumstances point inexorably to the difficulty of emulating the Danes . |
| 9 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 10 | Instead , the lesser designation of ‘ best performances ’ has been employed , mainly due to the difficulty of standardising courses . |
| 11 | The lift they entered was crowded , forcing them to stand close together , the brush of Luke 's jacket sleeve against her bare arm adding to the difficulty of trying to sort out what she was going to say to him before she agreed to get into the car with him . |
| 12 | All the evidence available points to the difficulty of involving users effectively in planning processes . |
| 13 | In the consideration of the plight of litigants in the civil courts , reference was made to the difficulty of collecting evidence to support a claim . |
| 14 | The old saying points both to the great latent — and often unrealized — fertility stored in the root system of an old permanent sward , and to the difficulty of rebuilding this treasure should it be dug up and spent . |
| 15 | But it can be argued that this will not give a quick cash flow fix at present due to the difficulty of disposing of a lease . |
| 16 | A dominant concern related to the difficulty of ensuring meaningful comparability because of wide variations in how companies interpret the requirements of SSAP 13 ( Revised ) , with regard to both the activities to be included in R&D and the costs to be attributed to them . |
| 17 | The combination of syntactic ambiguity problem of the ANLT system with the word ambiguity from the recognition system adds a further dimension to the difficulty of performing the parsing task . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is often ineffective , due to the difficulty of detecting abuse and , in criminal cases at least , the high standard of proof required for a successful prosecution . |
| 19 | by no means a new concept — Fulton had strongly advocated the development of units of accountable management — such arrangements had previously proved difficult to introduce on a widespread scale owing largely to the difficulty of isolating discrete elements of departmental work . |
| 20 | Their organization into topic-comment structures must add to the complexity of their thematic analysis and to the difficulty of identifying signals of thematic status . |