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 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 .
8 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 .
9 In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare .
10 It is now difficult to imagine that at this time virtually all the academic departments were based in the Trent Building
11 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 .
12 It is equally difficult to deny that the radioactive fall-out from a nuclear explosion in fact consists of a cloud of poisonous gases .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ 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 . ’
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