Example sentences of "how difficult it was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 2 | As Scott later pointed out , he then reversed his usual argument that Gothic did not provide enough light , by explaining how difficult it was for the Speaker to control the sunlight coming through the windows of his house in the Houses of Parliament . |
| 3 | The New York Herald headlined ‘ These Girl 's Do n't Drink , Smoke or Flirt ’ and printed an article , attributed to Mary , in which she explained how difficult it was for her to maintain discipline in a society where young girls were surrounded on every side by such bad examples of free and easy ways in all walks of life . |
| 4 | In this concluding section , we shall look at three quite different examples to see how difficult it was for scholars to achieve a total separation , even assuming they wanted it . |
| 5 | In fact , Galileo 's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) shows how difficult it was for him to pursue such an argument , even had he wished . |
| 6 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 7 | Pregnancy also posed difficulties to those administering health insurance , and this showed how difficult it was for state welfare policies to treat women as both workers and wives and mothers . |
| 8 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |