Example sentences of "it 's [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than trying to bluff your way through , it is better to say something like , ‘ Right at this moment it 's rather difficult to remember the exact details , could I possibly look over the advertisement again ? ’ |
| 2 | Well that they any comment on the appearance of a woman they now think erm it 's rather difficult to say . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's rather difficult to explain — ’ |
| 4 | Er if you do go to microphones three , which is the one at the back , it 's rather difficult to see you with the spotlight in my face . |
| 5 | It 's amazingly difficult to discuss anything serious in a group of twenty-two , twenty-three men and women . |
| 6 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 7 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 8 | It 's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic , so I just carry on walking on the pavement . |
| 9 | ‘ Dragon Love ’ is n't actually a bad LP , it 's just difficult to see why Perry and partner James Kyllo made it . |
| 10 | ‘ Dragon Love ’ is n't actually a bad LP , it 's just difficult to see why Perry and partner James Kyllo made it . |
| 11 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 12 | It 's also difficult to tell exactly what some convenience foods contain — a 100 per cent pure beefburger , for example , can legally contain 10 per cent water and up to 35 per cent added fat . |
| 13 | Now it 's jolly difficult to follow an argument of that time when it 's read — I appreciate that — but what I think Darwin is actually saying is this , that it 's true that vertebrates , for example — all vertebrates , from fish to ourselves — have a common pattern of a rigid rod down the middle of the back , segmented muscles either side of it , a mouth at the front , a hollow nerve chord on top , two pairs of fins or legs derived from them , but not three pairs or one pair , but two pairs and so on . |
| 14 | Just because of the employment situation generally , it 's increasingly difficult to get back into work after raising a family if you 've had time off . |
| 15 | Now that there are hundreds of new children 's titles published every year , it 's increasingly difficult to tell the best from the rest . |
| 16 | but you know it 's really difficult discussing this topic without people sniggering and getting all upset . |
| 17 | To be honest it 's really difficult to put a cost to that . |
| 18 | And it 's really difficult to believe in things like that ? |
| 19 | There is always a great temptation erm to say ‘ well the City centre is such a complicated area , we should try and get absolutely everything right before we move forward ’ and that I think is a recipe for endless delay , because it 's so complicated , it 's really difficult to get everything right . |
| 20 | My guess is you may not need the hour to complete the er course work but er it 's always difficult to say when you set the thing , yeah ? |
| 21 | It 's always difficult to trust old enemies . |
| 22 | In an older house , it can sometimes be difficult to get the shower tray level but it 's always difficult to get a good and permanent seal between the shower tray and the tiled walls . |
| 23 | It 's always difficult to balance what you feel is best for a client with what they say they want . |
| 24 | It 's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons . |
| 25 | It 's always difficult to know how to start a completely new venture , but the way I did it was to take out an ad in Guitar Player magazine , offering to modify any piece of equipment — anything that anyone wanted done . |
| 26 | ‘ Although it 's always difficult to know whether such a survey is representative of all staff involved in National Certificate delivery , nevertheless the EIS survey does represent the views of a substantial number of lecturers , ’ he said . |
| 27 | In all cases a helper is needed , someone strong and active to pull up quite heavy anchors , while the rest of the crew should realise that living in a yacht is like living in a caravan with incredibly soft suspension — and it 's sometimes difficult to hop out for a walk ! |
| 28 | With Old English Sheepdogs it 's sometimes difficult to tell — but who wants a dog that walks backwards ? |
| 29 | Now , designing systems like that requires computers with big memories , much , much bigger than the ones that you can buy in your shop round the corner at the moment , and the programs are quite complicated , it 's quite difficult to do this sort of thing , but in principle there 's no reason why it should n't happen , and that would make computers much easier to learn to use . |
| 30 | It 's quite difficult to translate : would ‘ negritude ’ be the correct term ? ’ |