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

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1 ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’
2 To go on thus is like walking up an ever-narrowing blind alley : the further you go the more difficult it is to turn about ; the more certain and greater the ultimate disaster .
3 The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava .
4 The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) .
5 The less you have of it as , for example , in a short face-to-face contact , the more difficult it is to impress and/or influence .
6 Try judging distances in an unfamiliar place with just one eye open , for instance , or notice how much more difficult it is to put your finger on a particular spot when one eye is shut .
7 To make it a little more difficult it is a good idea to make the children use their alternative hand .
8 As a general rule , the older and more stable the community , the more difficult it is to penetrate .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 But the more extensive and varied the corpus of writings , the more difficult it is to identify a common set of linguistic habits .
16 The further away the centre of power , the more difficult it is to complain .
17 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 .
18 He thinks about football rigorously , and stresses how much more difficult it is to play against an Italian attack .
19 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 .
20 The more complex the banking system , the more difficult it is to do this .
21 But the briefer a sound is , the more difficult it is to make it energetic enough to produce a decent echo .
22 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest .
23 ‘ The more studies that are done that come up with this same finding , the more difficult it is to dismiss them . ’
24 In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain 's economic problems .
25 You do n't know how difficult it is . ’
26 Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing .
27 One , a punk , talked about the village in Wales where she lives and how difficult it is to be different , so that dyeing her hair blue becomes an extremely powerful statement about herself , saying all the things she wants to about her rejection of the values of the people in her village .
28 I think this is about our physical boundaries again , as it was in Alison 's story , showing how fragile the self-image of girls can be , how easily invaded by others — and also , how difficult it is to like your body if it is curvaceous , if you are naturally fleshy , fat , large-breasted or pear-shaped , as many of us are .
29 You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ .
30 No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be .
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