Example sentences of "it is [adv] difficult for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 2 | It is not difficult for corporate officials to cover themselves in ‘ purity ’ even when they are breaking the law because the ‘ structural immorality ’ of their corporate environment provides a library of verbal technique for neutralizing the moral bind of laws against corporate behaviour . |
| 3 | C. K. Allen has suggested , for example , that : ‘ It is evidently difficult for a generation brought up on the early editions of Dicey 's Law of the Constitution to relinquish the belief that droit administratif is the sinister embodiment of all the distempers of the commonwealth which the Rule of Law has so proudly repulsed . ’ |
| 4 | It is generally difficult for litigation-dominated firms ( whether plaintiff or defendant ) to build corporate practices : differences of attitudes between parts of the client base , as well as different attitudes among lawyers and different economic considerations , all play their part . |
| 5 | Few visitors are welcome in Indian prisons , and it is particularly difficult for foreigners to achieve access . |
| 6 | It would seem that it is particularly difficult for older children ( over twelve ) , institutionalised children , or children with behaviour or severe learning difficulties , to settle in new families , at least without serious and lasting problems . |
| 7 | It is frequently difficult for staff to accept the notion that anyone other than teachers should have an active part to play in the development of the school and they are often suspicious of the motives of parents who wish to take an extensive part in school life . |
| 8 | It is immensely difficult for outsiders to begin to assess the efficiency of the secret world . |
| 9 | Knoydart is a closed book for motorists and for all except walkers equipped with map and compass — and it is even difficult for strong walkers . |
| 10 | Nevertheless this is a major weakness of the paper , as it is notoriously difficult for those seeking compensation to resolve their internal conflicts whilst litigation is still in progress . |
| 11 | It is increasingly difficult for social workers to stand aloof . |
| 12 | It is increasingly difficult for the establishment elites to retain dominance over all this new activity , even if they still have charge of the key institutions such as the Bank of England . |
| 13 | It is increasingly difficult for the relatives of the elderly sick to obtain even respite care in many hospitals when they themselves need a rest . |
| 14 | In any French town of any size at all we find perhaps three or four rival charcutiers displaying trays of shining olives , black and green , large and small , pickled gherkins , capers , home-made mayonnaise grated carrot salad , shredded celeriac in rémoulade sauce , several sorts of tomato salad , sweet-sour onions , champignons à la Grecque , ox or pig 's muzzle finely sliced and dressed with a vinaigrette sauce and fresh parsley , a salad of mussels , another of cervelas sausage ; several kinds of pork pâté ; sausages for grilling , sausages for boiling , sausages for hors-d'oeuvre , flat sausages called cré pinettes for baking or frying , salt pork to enrich stews and soups and vegetable dishes , pigs ' trotters ready cooked and breadcrumbed , so that all you need to do is to take them home and grill them ; cooked ham , raw ham , a galantine of tongue , cold pork and veal roasts , boned stuffed ducks and chickens So it is n't difficult for the housewife in a hurry to buy a little selection , however modest , of these things from the charcuterie , and plus her own imagination and something she has perhaps already in the larder to serve an appetizing and fresh little mixed hors-d'oeuvre . |
| 15 | It is also difficult for access . |
| 16 | It is obviously difficult for a parent to help a child through a developmental hurdle which he has not properly encompassed himself , but parents and children can grow up together , or , as we might say , children can bring up their parents . |
| 17 | It is personally difficult for any individual to give wholehearted attention both to departmental issues and to the main political strategy problems arising outside his or her own responsibilities . |
| 18 | ‘ It is very difficult for us Russians , ’ he explained , in a strong native accent . |
| 19 | ‘ It is very difficult for me . |
| 20 | Gerry Walker from AFF told last week 's conference that it is very difficult for local and central government to monitor all waters continuously . |
| 21 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |
| 22 | It is very difficult for candidates to cope with all these nuances and to give an accurate picture of themselves . |
| 23 | If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency . |
| 24 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 25 | Knives are now a standard part of the criminal 's equipment and it is very difficult for us to defend ourselves without going beyond the law , but there are ways — as you will see later . |
| 26 | War boars are really hard to control so when the boar decides to run off or charge madly out of control it is very difficult for the rider to do much about it . |
| 27 | At particular market in time whilst we agree as the board that we should employ someone and we intend to employ someone we just think at this particular moment in time it is very difficult for us to actually raise that sort of money on a regular basis . |
| 28 | But critics say that the project failed to recognize the diversity of the US scientific community and that it is very difficult for any non-governmental group to bring about significant and lasting change . |
| 29 | In that setting it is very difficult for our " propaganda " to be as effective as it might otherwise be . |
| 30 | Advertisements are used by people : it is very difficult for ads to use ( =manipulate ) people . |