Example sentences of "[adv] difficult it be [to-vb] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 4 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the other hand , we realize how difficult it is to use the law to bring these rogue employees to task . |
| 7 | Then : ‘ I know from personal experience how difficult it is to write a book . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bast tells Helen Schlegel how difficult it is to get a job in Edwardian England . |
| 12 | It 's amazing how difficult it is to get the British to send art to Italy . |
| 13 | Here I want to point out — as I have done with other features in the feminist profile — how difficult it is to identify the linguistic correlates of competition and cooperation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The most significant result of re-posing the question is to reveal how difficult it is to separate the different characters of the Shipman 's Tale and to assess , and judge , them individually in these terms . |
| 16 | Two independent vets explained how difficult it is to determine the age of a dog after it is a year old . |
| 17 | The film — screened last May — highlighted how difficult it was to reach a phone box in the middle of a roundabout . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was interesting to note how difficult it was to ask the questions as well as answer them . |
| 21 | 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 … . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had not conducted business in Latin America or in Africa at all , and visits to both countries soon after I was appointed revealed how extraordinarily difficult it was to get an accurate view of both their problems and opportunities merely from reading , no matter how assiduously . |