Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | An informal producer is always difficult to define but it is used here to describe an owner or an employee of a small-scale enterprise comprising less than ten people , operating from an impermanent site , under an ill-defined registration and tax scheme . |
| 2 | While none of these may suffer from ‘ absolute deprivation ’ ( a term that is anyway difficult to define unless it is meant to refer to circumstances in which people literally have no food , shelter and clothing ) , clearly many are unlikely to be enjoying an ‘ average ’ or ‘ normal ’ standard of living . |
| 3 | The distinction could be between two sounds which are not in themselves difficult to distinguish , but the contrast may be difficult to hear because it is new . |
| 4 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 5 | Many writers have said that English word stress is so difficult to predict that it is best to treat stress placement as a property of the individual word , to be learned when the word itself is learned . |
| 6 | Designs are quite difficult to convert and it is often easier to start with designs for this type of knitting . |
| 7 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 8 | If , however , you simply have a designation which says , This is E two land this is in conformity with the structure plan which , incidentally , has n't been proved in my view in relation to development pressure nor landscape quality , nevertheless you just say this is E two land , then it seems to me that it 's very difficult to argue that it is open countryside . |
| 9 | Little things left to build up cause long-term resentment , and this is very difficult to disperse once it is established . |
| 10 | It is difficult to research as it is behaviour which takes place in a domestic setting involving powerless people . |
| 11 | However , it is difficult to say that it is a rational approach . |
| 12 | The 5 speed Rover gearbox tends to chatter when running light , but without hearing yours it is difficult to say if it is louder than normal . |
| 13 | It is much more difficult to show that it is a spiritual dead-end which will only end in disappointment , superficiality and naivety . |
| 14 | has found sales targets outside the UK snack market difficult to achieve but it is hoping to obtain new sales from recent new initiatives . |
| 15 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 16 | Where the status of a provision is not made clear , for example in a notice or bulletin , it may be difficult to tell whether it is a rule , guidance , a recommendation , or a general comment . |