Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thus we have a situation where data is not transformed into information , ie what staff need is information that addresses a specific need or objective of their job , and what typically they receive is a mass of data not properly tailored to their needs and so difficult to penetrate that it falls into disuse .
2 Charisma — difficult to define but it attracts others .
3 The verb to love is difficult to define as it covers such a range of emotion .
4 This essentially empirical question is very difficult to answer as it raises a whole host of conceptual , theoretical and practical difficulties that are only partially resolvable .
5 The truth is that it is in a dreadful state of disrepair and would have been difficult to sell unless it went to a builder who would demolish it and redevelop the site .
6 In this case and if the time constant RC also happens to equal the pulse duration τ Thus As anticipated , this integral is difficult to evaluate but it does reduce to the solution expected from chapter 4 of when when when Help with difficult inverse Fourier transforms is often available from special tables .
7 ‘ I found the wide head difficult to use as it did n't fit the contours of my skin .
8 This is not as difficult to do as it sounds , simply because of the very broad maxima and minima .
9 But such speculation is very difficult to predict as it depends on often highly volatile expectations .
10 If somebody keeps on going abo on about how much they love you , if somebody keeps on going on about they care for you and how much they 'd like you to enjoy yourself and er all that kind of thing and you subsequently feel hurt , upset , abused and need to go to casualty , that 's probably a lot more difficult to understand because it does n't fit the script .
11 It is a particularly nasty parasite because it can be so difficult to eradicate once it has multiplied and affected your system .
12 This concept of structure is particularly difficult to grasp because it appears not once but twice .
13 As to the exact locality of the pain , it was difficult to convey that it had grown , and that instead of having a pain he was now contained inside it .
14 Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head .
15 There was culatello , part of the pig 's bottom — this was difficult to produce because it had to be carefully matured , and was correspondingly expensive .
16 This kind of rapport is difficult to achieve and it entails an entirely different relationship between the informant and his pupil from that which was assumed by the anthropologists of seventy years ago .
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