Example sentences of "[adv] difficult it is " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 32 | It has been recognised how difficult it is to attribute accurately the effect of humans on soil erosion ( Stocking 1978b : 130 ) because of the uncontrolled nature of many other crucial variables , such as climatic change . |
| 33 | Ah , how difficult it is . |
| 34 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 35 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 36 | Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences . |
| 37 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
| 38 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 39 | It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet . |
| 40 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 41 | The controversy that has surrounded Brenner 's results illustrates how difficult it is to draw firm conclusions about the role of any one factor , such as unemployment , on a state as loosely defined as ‘ health ’ . |
| 42 | Be realistic about how difficult it is going to be . |
| 43 | It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice ! |
| 44 | How difficult it is to listen to others ! |
| 45 | If only you readers realised how difficult it is attempting to open envelopes without the gift of arms you 'd send postcards instead ! |
| 46 | It is surprising how difficult it is . |
| 47 | Two independent vets explained how difficult it is to determine the age of a dog after it is a year old . |
| 48 | Imagine how difficult it is to look at the speaker if you can not tell the direction the voice is coming from , or if you can not hear his voice and maybe do n't know he is speaking . |
| 49 | The air-filled Parafoil has long been established as a stable single line kite so its development as a steerable stunter for two ( or more as we shall see ) lines came initially as a surprise knowing only too well how difficult it is sometimes to get a Parafoil started . |
| 50 | ‘ You just can not believe how difficult it is , ’ said one successful candidate . |
| 51 | A discretionary service means that decisions can be made without having to track the client down — ‘ it 's surprising how difficult it is to get hold of people ’ — before it 's too late . |
| 52 | Romanians are very well aware of how much they have inherited from the Ceauşescu regime and how difficult it is , with the best will in the world , to purge the moral degradation from their souls . |
| 53 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |
| 54 | The widespread unease with several of the measures proposed in the welfare reforms felt by many Conservative MPs , demonstrates how difficult it is for any government ( even one with a large parliamentary majority ) to reform the Welfare State . |
| 55 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |
| 56 | You know how difficult it is to get your hands on anything these days — and your mother tries so hard to make you look nice . |
| 57 | You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Then : ‘ I know from personal experience how difficult it is to write a book . |