Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An informal producer is always difficult to define but it is used here to describe an owner or an employee of a small-scale enterprise comprising less than ten people , operating from an impermanent site , under an ill-defined registration and tax scheme . |
| 2 | While none of these may suffer from ‘ absolute deprivation ’ ( a term that is anyway difficult to define unless it is meant to refer to circumstances in which people literally have no food , shelter and clothing ) , clearly many are unlikely to be enjoying an ‘ average ’ or ‘ normal ’ standard of living . |
| 3 | The distinction could be between two sounds which are not in themselves difficult to distinguish , but the contrast may be difficult to hear because it is new . |
| 4 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 5 | I I agree it is it 's very difficult to do when it 's not in a real life situation |
| 6 | Difficult to do when it 's in a real life situation believe me it 's harder to do in a real life situation than it is in a situation we 've got |
| 7 | And it 's difficult to do when it 's not your language . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Designs are quite difficult to convert and it is often easier to start with designs for this type of knitting . |
| 10 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 11 | If , however , you simply have a designation which says , This is E two land this is in conformity with the structure plan which , incidentally , has n't been proved in my view in relation to development pressure nor landscape quality , nevertheless you just say this is E two land , then it seems to me that it 's very difficult to argue that it is open countryside . |
| 12 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 13 | Little things left to build up cause long-term resentment , and this is very difficult to disperse once it is established . |
| 14 | IntelliDraw is hardly a low-end application , but it 's difficult to place because it 's the result of some brave lateral thinking about how people use images in practical circumstances . |
| 15 | It is difficult to research as it is behaviour which takes place in a domestic setting involving powerless people . |
| 16 | However , it is difficult to say that it is a rational approach . |
| 17 | The 5 speed Rover gearbox tends to chatter when running light , but without hearing yours it is difficult to say if it is louder than normal . |
| 18 | It is much more difficult to show that it is a spiritual dead-end which will only end in disappointment , superficiality and naivety . |
| 19 | has found sales targets outside the UK snack market difficult to achieve but it is hoping to obtain new sales from recent new initiatives . |
| 20 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 21 | Where the status of a provision is not made clear , for example in a notice or bulletin , it may be difficult to tell whether it is a rule , guidance , a recommendation , or a general comment . |