Example sentences of "is [adv] difficult [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many writers have said that English word stress is so difficult to predict that it is best to treat stress placement as a property of the individual word , to be learned when the word itself is learned . |
| 2 | There is a steady shuffle of people leaving once the film has started as they find it is so difficult to follow that the experience is frustrating . |
| 3 | But the language is so difficult to learn that there are times when I feel completely stupid and understand hearing people 's difficulty in learning sign language . |
| 4 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 5 | Of course , as others have remarked ( e.g. Palmer , 1984 ) , it is extremely difficult to prove that there is no gene flow between enclaves . |
| 6 | This exclusion of higher education from consideration by sociologists of education must in part be due to the fact that higher education is not compulsory ; it is perhaps difficult to argue that something which is a matter of choice can in any sense be repressive . |
| 7 | It is not difficult to see that a smallholding can not support a large mortgage as well as a family ! |
| 8 | It is not difficult to see that the … power and extent of the growth of the productive forces , have reached their highest point in precisely the United States . |
| 9 | It was the smart thing to do down Hollywood , but it is not difficult to see that the venom and enjoyment that went into those attacks of the 1920s tell us more about the social values of elites and in particular of intellectuals than they do about movies as such . |
| 10 | On closer inspection , however , it is not difficult to see that this is a rather mild counter-movement , one of those smaller eddies that spring up again and again from the many-layered structure of historical change within every stage of more comprehensive processes . |
| 11 | Now it is not difficult to see that ( a , b ) = b , r1 ) ( exercise 13 ) and that similarly |
| 12 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 13 | It is not difficult to show that ( other things being equal ) the more evenly the gas is distributed between the two containers , the greater the entropy ; so the state with the gas more evenly distributed between the two cylinders is the one that occurred later . |
| 14 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |
| 15 | Arguing along these lines it is not difficult to show that cars is the semantic head of extremely fast cars ; to resolve the clash in ? |
| 16 | For isotropic elastic materials it is not difficult to show that internal pressurization allows the determination of the plane strain bulk modulus A torsion test will give a fourth elastic constant , the longitudinal shear modulus . |
| 17 | It is not difficult to imagine that the impact of the crash caused damage to almost all the various spindles that make up the centre-pieces of many of the sub-assemblies . |
| 18 | The thick stone walls , solid oak beams , cantilever oak staircase and mullioned windows are all exceptional , and the décor and style of furnishing is so absolutely ‘ right ’ that it is not difficult to imagine that one has just ‘ stepped back in time ’ . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it is not difficult to imagine that there was a Burton-is-an-expletive-deleted faction among the Hollywood wives , mistresses , starlets and full supporting cast . |
| 20 | In particular , it is not difficult to imagine that the oral stage , with its central feature of attachment to the breast , and thereby to the person of the mother , holds rich possibilities for primitive superego-formation , especially if weaning creates a tendency to introject the lost object . |
| 21 | A detailed study of the strategic document reveals why it is not difficult to understand that there was some unwillingness to have it subjected to detailed transport analysis . |
| 22 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
| 23 | This in turn means that , while general deterrence might well form the basis of a plausible general justification for having a system of punishment , it is more difficult to argue that the amount of punishment imposed by our system is justifiable by deterrent considerations . |
| 24 | In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare . |
| 25 | It is now difficult to imagine that at this time virtually all the academic departments were based in the Trent Building |
| 26 | It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs . |
| 27 | It is equally difficult to deny that the radioactive fall-out from a nuclear explosion in fact consists of a cloud of poisonous gases . |
| 28 | IT IS sometimes difficult to remember that company directors are merely the custodians of their shareholders ' money , rather than the owners of the business free to do with it what they will . |
| 29 | But at this juncture another major problem emerges , in that it is very difficult to demonstrate that there is an established libertarian Conservative tradition with which Thatcherism and the new right can be matched . |
| 30 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |