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

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31 The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes .
32 The more pervasive a structure becomes in a given context , the more difficult it becomes for speakers and writers to select other structures or to depict events differently .
33 In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act .
34 The further away the centre of power , the more difficult it is to complain .
35 Readers of The National Trust Magazine will know from the annual summary of the Trust 's financial position how much more difficult it is becoming to find the resources required to carry out the Trust 's broad conservation responsibilities .
36 In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive .
37 However , the greater the ease of capture the more difficult it becomes to explain why the Earth has a large satellite but not Venus , Mercury and Mars .
38 He thinks about football rigorously , and stresses how much more difficult it is to play against an Italian attack .
39 The larger the number of firms already supplying a market and the more difficult it is for them to collude , the more competition there is likely to be .
40 One has only to envisage circumstances in which all those upon whose territory strategic arms are stationed are required to come to the negotiating table to consider such a proposition to realise how much more difficult it would be if all , rather than a limited number , were participating .
41 The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted .
42 ‘ — the more difficult it gets for us to disprove an alibi . ’
43 However , the less able the front end is to specify the full characteristics of the phonetic input , the more difficult it becomes to distinguish lexical hypotheses .
44 The more complex the banking system , the more difficult it is to do this .
45 But the briefer a sound is , the more difficult it is to make it energetic enough to produce a decent echo .
46 The more ideas a sentence contains , the more difficult it becomes to read it .
47 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest .
48 ‘ The more studies that are done that come up with this same finding , the more difficult it is to dismiss them . ’
49 The longer Everton are in the danger zone , the more difficult it will be to cast off the self-doubts and flow with confidence .
50 In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain 's economic problems .
51 If it was really difficult it would n't be our second-largest export market . ’
52 Oh , how doubly difficult it was for them both .
53 She 'd invented schools for children , on the basis that since reading and writing were quite difficult it was best to get them over with early .
54 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 .
55 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 .
56 How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it .
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