Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not difficult to see that a smallholding can not support a large mortgage as well as a family ! |
| 2 | This is a sad state of affairs , particularly to be deplored when it is not too difficult to see that a church organisation might well find itself put into the category of a nationalised business . |
| 3 | At any rate , it was difficult to see that the FAA had any good reason not to implement the very important recommendations made by their own US investigating authority , the NTSB , after the Windsor accident , especially as the RLD had gone to the trouble of flying to Los Angeles to make their point . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cochrane argues that it is difficult to see whether the direction of change can be described as " post-Fordist " at all since the changes incorporate contradictory tendencies . |
| 7 | That type of structural error is rather more difficult to diagnose than the type where the results are always bad . |
| 8 | Fringe benefits are also more significant for workers in large companies although their exact size is difficult to estimate because the Welfare Facilities Survey covers only the 50 per cent of labour in firms employing more than 30 workers . |
| 9 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 10 | After recent mass arrests and tortures in Beijing , it has become even more difficult to claim that the government is unaware of the excesses committed in Lhasa . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 13 | Farm staffs are relatively small and unskilled youths are difficult to accommodate and the cost , £30/week as against £75/week for a skilled man , is undoubtedly a deterrent . |
| 14 | It was difficult to accept that a dream was finished for ever . |
| 15 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 16 | Comparison of ‘ An Ode on Mercy ’ in the first volume and the version printed with the subscription proposals also reveals differences , though again it is difficult to know whether the editor of that volume was following Leapor 's manuscript in preference to a version corrected possibly by Garrick . |
| 17 | It is sometimes difficult to know whether the purchaser has done an act adopting the transaction . |
| 18 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 19 | of contract , although evidence may be difficult to find if the expert issues a non-speaking decision . |
| 20 | In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information . |
| 21 | It is our belief that the idea of a grammar as a theory , subject at every point to testing and criticism , is difficult to establish unless the student is in a position to contrast it with another . |
| 22 | However , the problem with contact lenses and glasses is that your eyes can change over time , so it is imperative that problems are sorted out as soon as possible , as it will be difficult to establish whether the fault lies in your eyes or in the lenses . |
| 23 | Criminal fraud is notoriously difficult to establish and the evidence required to do so needs careful and skilled assessment . |
| 24 | It is also difficult to establish when the damage occurred . |
| 25 | It is often difficult to establish if a site is liable to flooding and it can be easily overlooked during the site investigation . |
| 26 | Even moderate Muslims agree that Mr Azam 's question will become increasingly difficult to answer if the war drags on for months and if the allies damage some of the holy sites of Shia Islam in Iraq . |
| 27 | They are very difficult to destroy although the enemy may try to attack them with other engines of war , large monsters or magic for example . |
| 28 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 29 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 30 | Such a strategy would ultimately devalue our famous brands and would be difficult to reverse when the recession ends . |