Example sentences of "[adv] difficult it [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the more extensive and varied the corpus of writings , the more difficult it is to identify a common set of linguistic habits . |
| 2 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 3 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |
| 4 | Darwin 's theory provides a classic example of how difficult it is to draw a sharp distinction between ‘ natural history ’ and ‘ biology ’ : the process of evolution must of necessity mediate between the reproductive process that maintains the population and the environment to which the population must adapt . |
| 5 | Then : ‘ I know from personal experience how difficult it is to write a book . |
| 6 | We have seen how difficult it is to gain a horizontal flow with such limited material , and that the resulting music is inevitably fairly static . |
| 7 | Hunters often complain about how difficult it is to get a dead mountain goat down from a mountain — it simply will not slide easily across snow . |
| 8 | And , as I stressed earlier , the props for such beliefs come from within the black community : black kids tell each other stories about how difficult it is to get a decent job if you are black and , in a self-fulfilling way , it does becomes difficult . |
| 9 | Bast tells Helen Schlegel how difficult it is to get a job in Edwardian England . |
| 10 | In accounting for the failure of the " Fifteen , historians sympathetic to Jacobitism tend to stress how difficult it is to launch a successful invasion , and that all the trump cards lie with the government of the day . |
| 11 | The film — screened last May — highlighted how difficult it was to reach a phone box in the middle of a roundabout . |
| 12 | I was observing how difficult it was to arrange a day on the crags with a mountaineering celebrity when the weather is warm and very wet . |
| 13 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 14 | Amery wrote in his diary on 25 August : ‘ Milner once remarked to me in South Africa about the Cabinet of his day , how difficult it was to keep a lot of empty sacks standing up straight … . |
| 15 | Our third example concerns Newton 's contemporary , Edmond Halley ( c. 1656–1743 ) , whose efforts to investigate the earth 's history independently of Scriptural authority show how difficult it was to achieve a full separation even by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |