Example sentences of "the [adv] difficult it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’ |
| 2 | The larger the largest structure in the universe the more difficult it becomes to reconcile it with the uniform distribution of matter in the early universe . |
| 3 | To go on thus is like walking up an ever-narrowing blind alley : the further you go the more difficult it is to turn about ; the more certain and greater the ultimate disaster . |
| 4 | The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava . |
| 5 | The more this principle is understood and the more firmly it is adhered to , whether in practical or in theoretical subjects , the more difficult it will be for a school to organize its teaching . |
| 6 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 7 | The less you have of it as , for example , in a short face-to-face contact , the more difficult it is to impress and/or influence . |
| 8 | Sometimes the harder you try to stay calm the more difficult it becomes . |
| 9 | She realised with a sinking heart that the longer her mother-in-law remained at the Manor , the more difficult it would be to dislodge her . |
| 10 | The more uncertain and defensive you are , the more difficult it will be to attain your objectives . |
| 11 | The longer they have been Christians and the more they have been preoccupied with their Christian activities , the more difficult it becomes to relate their beliefs to the perceived needs of their friends . |
| 12 | In this search the closer one gets to home the more difficult it becomes . |
| 13 | As a general rule , the older and more stable the community , the more difficult it is to penetrate . |
| 14 | The obvious problem with information about credit is that , the more people need it ( that is , the groups shown above as most ill-informed about credit , and most likely to use unnecessarily high-cost credit ) the more difficult it is to make sure it reaches them . |
| 15 | The longer they had delayed acting , the more difficult it had become for them to act . |
| 16 | I am not underestimating him because that would be a serious mistake , but the greater our fear the more difficult it is to view him with that clinical detachment so vital for survival . |
| 17 | The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle . ’ |
| 18 | The longer one is so possessed , the more difficult it is to exorcise the sasoo spirit , since , ‘ like a real spouse ’ , it merges with the very flesh and bone of the victim . |
| 19 | It became a desperate struggle to get them on ; the longer it took the more difficult it became as my fingers became numb and useless . |
| 20 | In contrast , the more experiences and activities are such that we find it hard to make sense of them existing or occurring in isolation , the more difficult it will be , on Moore 's principles , to find anything of real inherent value in them . |
| 21 | The greater the involvement with those goals , attitudes and feelings , the more difficult it is to change people 's perceptions and to resolve the conflict . |
| 22 | The ghost of the Duke of Windsor haunted the minds of the family , patently aware that the older he became the more difficult it would be to find a virginal , Protestant aristocrat to be his bride . |
| 23 | The closer the inspection , the less like a ‘ classical ’ demographic transition the British record seems to be , and the more difficult it is to attribute its timing directly to the development of an urban-industrial society ( Woods 1987 ) . |
| 24 | The further the cut-off point is reduced below 100 per cent , however , the more difficult it becomes to specify what has been learned . |
| 25 | But the more extensive and varied the corpus of writings , the more difficult it is to identify a common set of linguistic habits . |
| 26 | The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes , but I know I need to delve deep in order to get to grips with what lies underneath . |
| 27 | The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes . |
| 28 | The more pervasive a structure becomes in a given context , the more difficult it becomes for speakers and writers to select other structures or to depict events differently . |
| 29 | In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act . |
| 30 | The further away the centre of power , the more difficult it is to complain . |