Example sentences of "difficult it is " in BNC.

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31 It is surprising how difficult it is .
32 Two independent vets explained how difficult it is to determine the age of a dog after it is a year old .
33 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 .
34 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 .
35 ‘ You just can not believe how difficult it is , ’ said one successful candidate .
36 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 .
37 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 .
38 As a general rule , the older and more stable the community , the more difficult it is to penetrate .
39 The obvious problem with information about credit is that , the more people need it ( that is , the groups shown above as most ill-informed about credit , and most likely to use unnecessarily high-cost credit ) the more difficult it is to make sure it reaches them .
40 I am not underestimating him because that would be a serious mistake , but the greater our fear the more difficult it is to view him with that clinical detachment so vital for survival .
41 The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers .
42 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 .
43 The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle . ’
44 Do you know know difficult it is to make this thing go slowly ? ’
45 Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession !
46 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 .
47 You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter .
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 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 .
51 Then : ‘ I know from personal experience how difficult it is to write a book .
52 It 's amazing how difficult it is to get the British to send art to Italy .
53 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 .
54 In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain 's economic problems .
55 The greater the involvement with those goals , attitudes and feelings , the more difficult it is to change people 's perceptions and to resolve the conflict .
56 There is a pseudo-sophistication in our understanding of sexuality and its relation to human actions , for we have not grasped how very difficult it is to cope with all its manifestations .
57 The closer the inspection , the less like a ‘ classical ’ demographic transition the British record seems to be , and the more difficult it is to attribute its timing directly to the development of an urban-industrial society ( Woods 1987 ) .
58 A recent report published by the EOC revealed how difficult it is for girls in YTP .
59 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 .
60 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 .
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