Example sentences of "it [is] difficult not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the distinction he made between , as it were , the ordinary daily self and the special writing self , it 's difficult not to see , in his own nature , evidence of some of his clearest gifts as a novelist . |
| 2 | It 's difficult not to get involved in , or at least take a view on , the current Great Educational Examination Debate that 's sweeping the UK — the standards being achieved , or not achieved , as the case may be ; the fairness of a system that employs different examining boards with different syllabuses and differing subject ingredients and , importantly , with varying amounts ( from zero per cent to 100 per cent ) of coursework that may benefit from parental/teacher ‘ assistance ’ in varying degrees . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's difficult not to get inspired playing with Ian , ’ said the 31-year-old from Kenilworth . |
| 4 | Our survey found that four out of 10 boys agree it 's difficult not to have sex if all your friends are doing it . |
| 5 | As the books have appeared simultaneously , it is difficult not to compare them , especially as they frequently reach different conclusions . |
| 6 | Albania , however , definitely is a part of the developing world in the middle of Europe and it is difficult not to compare Albania with my previous experiences in Africa . |
| 7 | Its success will depend upon people believing that Mr Lamont knows what he was doing , and that his forecasts are reliable ; and it is difficult not to reflect that an alternative Chancellor would have had carried more conviction . |
| 8 | It is difficult not to sympathise with the People for Birmingham 's scheme . |
| 9 | It is difficult not to sympathize with the frustrations of an obviously sincere cabinet member trying to remain loyal to the president while , at the same time , protecting the education service from the depre-dations of conservative extremists . |
| 10 | It is difficult not to agree with Nossal that such wastefulness is inherent in any system where consumer pressures predominate and is one of the less happy faces of market economics . |
| 11 | It is difficult not to notice that the ‘ bundle of sticks ’ is reminiscent of the Roman fasces , the bundle of rods with a protruding axe-head , carried before Roman consuls as a sign of the state authority of Rome , and adopted by Mussolini as a symbol of the movement he led to power in 1922 , whence the word ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 12 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 13 | Although Hardy came to declare that no book of his had ever contained less of himself , it is difficult not to see in Jude a symbolic statement of all that he had found most disappointing in his life and in the human condition in general . |
| 14 | For instance , it is difficult not to see a connection between the prejudiced views of heads and teachers involved in ESN-M referral processes and the overrepresentation of Afro-Caribbean children in special schools ( Tomlinson , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 16 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 17 | Because of its far-reaching effects on individual women 's lives , however , it is difficult not to see it as , on the contrary , a potent example of the weakness of an orthodox relativist view — a view , that is , which attempts , incoherently , to maintain the equal validity of all moral perspectives . |
| 18 | It is difficult not to see in such debates a growing independence of science from biblical constraint . |
| 19 | As Butler and Stokes point out , " It is difficult not to see this as evidence of the acceptance of the view that British society is divided into two primary classes . |
| 20 | This is easeful music , and it is difficult not to like it . |
| 21 | It is difficult not to fall into the cliche trap when writing about 1992 and the Single European Market ( SEM ) . |
| 22 | It is difficult not to conclude that the motive for the ‘ allegations ’ was the political self-interest of the government . |
| 23 | It is difficult not to believe that they attached too much importance to Law 's availability . |
| 24 | ‘ It is difficult not to get political , ’ added Ms Robinson , recalling how in 1972 the Tory government had shown sympathy to their cause but never fulfilled its promises . |
| 25 | Hunt as the Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey must have been involved , and it is difficult not to assume that he had a conflict of loyalties in this transaction . |
| 26 | Whatever people like Page may have felt or thought they felt about the Vietnam war , it is difficult not to regard them as much its victims as its predators . |
| 27 | The façade is squat and heavy — the architect deliberately lowered it to allow a frontal view of the octagonal tiborium that surmounts the cupola — but it is difficult not to admire the effort that must have gone into it . |
| 28 | Perhaps the sea never crashed vigorously here but it is difficult not to think some vital force has been sucked from it . |
| 29 | It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable . |
| 30 | I think Mr Wright realises he has produced a piece of special pleading that does not wholly stand up , but it is difficult not to feel sympathy with his assertion : The past can not be changed , but what we make of it certainly can . |