Example sentences of "it is difficult [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , it is difficult to argue that every law defining certain actions as criminal is related to supporting the interests of the dominant classes . |
| 2 | Given the apparent strength of Gloucester 's position , it is difficult to argue that he was panicked into seizing the throne . |
| 3 | Although Gloucester 's power , both in the north and more generally , derived ultimately from Edward IV , it is difficult to argue that the king was wrong in what he did . |
| 4 | Although it is tempting to hold up Meriden as a co-operative which was at a substantial disadvantage compared with its Japanese competitors , it is difficult to argue that its inability to finance capital-intensive production methods were solely responsible for its problems … . |
| 5 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 6 | If this is the case , and long-term memory for the simple association is reflected in a widespread increase in numbers of synapses , it is difficult to argue that the memory is ‘ represented , by but a single set of synapses at a particular motor neuron ; thousands must be involved , distributed across many cells . |
| 7 | However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime . |
| 8 | Given the apparent strength of Gloucester 's position , it is difficult to argue that he was panicked into seizing the throne . |
| 9 | Although Gloucester 's power , both in the north and more generally , derived ultimately from Edward IV , it is difficult to argue that the king was wrong in what he did . |
| 10 | On the other hand it is difficult to argue that the Revolution resolved the major issues that had been sources of political tension since the Restoration , and it certainly did not restore the political consensus that had eluded the nation in 1660 . |
| 11 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 12 | It is difficult to remember that Strauss in 1908 was regarded by many in a similar light to Stockhausen today . |
| 13 | Outside , facing the W door it is difficult to remember that this is the most modern part of the cathedral , created at the same time as Prague 's Functionalist architecture . |
| 14 | If our planet has seen some eighty billion people , it is difficult to suppose that every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures . |
| 15 | When two strangers are standing shivering at a bus-stop in an icy wind and one turns to the other and says ‘ My goodness , it 's cold ’ , it is difficult to suppose that the primary intention of the speaker is to convey information . |
| 16 | It is difficult to suppose that a core team ( consisting typically of a small group of community mental handicap nurses and social workers ) operates at all like a 20-person team . |
| 17 | It is difficult to say that such a vast group of people has special needs , and indeed many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population . |
| 18 | However , it is difficult to say that it is a rational approach . |
| 19 | In overall terms it is difficult to say that the culture of a law degree has changed . |
| 20 | He stated : ‘ If we apply [ the fraud vitiates consent ] idea to the present case , it is difficult to say that the prisoner was not guilty of rape , for the definition of rape is having connection with a woman without her consent . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately , it is difficult to demonstrate that an analysis which does not have an influence on interpretation has actually been carried out . |
| 22 | It is difficult to deny that there has been some change in the right direction . |
| 23 | It is difficult to see that as anything other than an attempt to intimidate the BBC . |
| 24 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |
| 25 | Sometimes the purpose is simply intimidatory , as with the racist march , rather than an attempt to coerce persons into taking or not pursuing any particular course of action , and it is difficult to see that conditions could be imposed on a ‘ racist ’ march on this ground alone . |
| 26 | In theft terms it is difficult to see that one of the rights of the customer has been adversely interfered with . |
| 27 | Its programmes are much the most susceptible to ‘ salami slicing ’ , since it is difficult to claim that the end of the world will come if the Army receives , say , ninety instead of a hundred tank replacements in a particular year . |
| 28 | Second , even if straightforward authoritarianism and minimisation of wages are assumed to be universal features of capitalist rationality , it is difficult to claim that this ‘ rationality ’ is uniformly imposed in practice as a function of the ‘ undisputed authority of the capitalist ’ ( Marx ) . |
| 29 | I would not wish to underestimate the capabilities of my fellow countrymen for self-deception ; but it is difficult to believe that there can be further instalments of the saga which began for the people of Great Britain with the successful revolt of the American colonies . |
| 30 | It is difficult to believe that many of the prestige projects discussed in Chapter 8 would have been contemplated in the absence of the very high volumes of aid reaching countries for other , more mundane , purposes . |