Example sentences of "[adv] difficult it is " in BNC.

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61 It 's amazing how difficult it is to get the British to send art to Italy .
62 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 .
63 A recent report published by the EOC revealed how difficult it is for girls in YTP .
64 That elected governments find it necessary to bow to the wishes of big privately owned companies , that the organs which so largely shape public opinion can be bought and sold by millionaires and treated by them simply as pieces of private property ( which is ' of course , what they are ) , demonstrates how difficult it is for an active and effective democracy to coexist with monopoly capitalism .
65 We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion .
66 Try and think , work out how heavy that tree would be and how difficult it is actually to get a large tree into a lounge , living room , dining room , call it what you will !
67 The externalist can point out how difficult it is going to be for the internalist to provide a satisfying account of knowledge .
68 Just how difficult it is to move beyond this kind of thinking can be seen from Statement B. Here the principle of continuity is rooted directly in the process of generational transmission .
69 We have noted just how difficult it is to implement PHC effectively because of administrative inaccessibility of the relevant populations whilst geographically the communities using the health facility may be very close .
70 ‘ I feel I 've had an enormous advantage over a lot of comedy writers , because they do n't seem to realize how difficult it is .
71 ‘ I am Barbadian , and I know how difficult it is to get anything done here . ’
72 The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children
73 The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children .
74 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 .
75 It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two .
76 For Dr Petruska Clarkson , Director of the Metanoia Psychotherapy Training Institute the disturbing picture now emerging is a brutally clear example of how difficult it is for a human being to adjust to a radically different reality .
77 You can imagine how difficult it is to do such a thing .
78 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 .
79 How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’
80 For men under 20 , the job offer arrival rates are at least nine times higher than for men aged 55 and over ( at the mean wage ) , emphasising how difficult it is for older unemployed men to obtain a job .
81 ‘ I know how difficult it is in London — I suppose tropical fruits would be allowed ? ’
82 My chairman knows more than anyone how difficult it is to obtain good quality samples of natural conversational data .
83 The prospect of environmental catastrophe has shown us how fragile life is , how inter-dependent we all are , how difficult it is going to be to find our way out — and how important ideas are going to be to finding it .
84 We all know how difficult it is for members of the security forces and their families , and we should now be aware that they are at risk all the time .
85 On the other hand , we realize how difficult it is to use the law to bring these rogue employees to task .
86 Unfortunately many employees also know how difficult it is for us to stop them simply imposing changes without agreement from the people that are affected .
87 Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene .
88 I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’
89 I 'm amazed how difficult it is occasionally for a murderer to despatch his victim : in the Thames Valley we once had a case where no fewer than twenty-three vicious stab-wounds were insufficient to complete the sorry business .
90 The 14-day course of epoetin resulted in only a 9 g/L rise in haemoglobin , illustrating how difficult it is to ‘ override ’ the endogeneous erythropoietin control of red cell production in a non-anaemic individual .
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