Example sentences of "it is difficult [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Such access , which is limited to one byte at a time , is sufficient for setting and reading screen locations or " flags " , but it is difficult to use for building more complicated data structures .
2 It is difficult to plan for 15% interest rates one year and 8% the next ; or inflation of 2% one year and 10% the next .
3 But it is difficult to cook for people every day , especially when there are no other kitchen staff to cover . ’
4 No details were given of the glycaemic control or other metabolic parameters of the two groups of diabetics studied ( Davis et al , 1982 ) , and it is difficult to account for these findings .
5 However , it is worth noting that the London Basin is interrupted by a well-known series of uplifts stretching from the Thames Estuary to Windsor which it is difficult to account for without postulating a further line of basement dislocations , possibly Variscan in origin .
6 The labour process , it is argued , can not be seen merely as an economic process attendant upon capitalist rationality and imposed on the workforce ; it is embedded in social and cultural practices , and without an understanding of this apparatus , particularly the meanings attached to work , it is difficult to account for the specific form of change , for the relationships between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ , and for the significance of skill and social relations at the point of production .
7 It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere .
8 First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept .
9 It is difficult to account for this difference in latency periods , but one contributory factor may be the better bibliographical control of the subject field , as described earlier , which results in increased consultations soon after the theses are deposited .
10 Power is lacking , and the user has to be patient to get results , but it is difficult to complain for the average selling price of just over £60 .
11 For individual schools a pregnant teenager is still a relatively rare occurrence and one in which it is difficult to cater for all the physical , medical , social , residential and educational needs of the prospective mother and baby .
12 It is difficult to generalize for any single group from different cultures .
13 It is difficult to work for development and progression in the tasks at a level appropriate to each group .
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