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

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1 I hope that the reconciliation achieved by the cross will provide the basis for us all to say that we have no grounds for making fresh divisions which make a witness to a needy world more difficult than it is already .
2 This sounds more difficult than it is — you 'll be surprised how quickly you can become quite proficient at it .
3 ‘ Please , do n't make this any more difficult than it is , ’ she pleaded faintly .
4 The adjustment to the rise and fall is difficult because it is always sticky , the wood chips tend to collect on the travel of the sliding table making the action very bumpy , the sliding table is always out of adjustment for one reason or another .
5 Many people find the linking of names to faces difficult because it is somewhat abstract — so let's take away the abstract and instead make it interesting if ridiculous !
6 All of these are difficult because it is very unlikely that you will be able to dig down to collect the rabbits that the ferrets accumulate at the dead-ends of the burrows .
7 But when he was out injured during the early part of the season it was very difficult because it is not easy for me to start creating things .
8 A similar situation obtained in the second example which unsurprisingly proved much more difficult because it is unfamiliar and the numbers are more complex .
9 Compiling a book about Motor Racing records is not difficult because it is a sport that has been well documented , statistically , over the years .
10 Supervision is difficult because it is easy to start up without registering .
11 It is well recognised that managing software is difficult because it is in essence a control problem , posing questions such as which particular versions of software items should be used at a particular stage of a project for a particular purpose , or what software should be issued to whom , and when .
12 Thus to consider a professional-client relationship when relating professionalism to teaching is made even more difficult since it is impossible to view this relationship in personal terms .
13 The England manager is a slave to slip catching practice , difficult though it is to recall the last time one of his bowlers located an outside edge .
14 Difficult though it is to evaluate , the evidence of the receptivity to the portrayal of Hitler 's image which we have examined has pointed to seven significant bases of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ .
15 I would like to think that the problem of entry into Equity could be resolved in the future — difficult as it is .
16 Price stability , difficult as it is to define , is a worthy objective but does not depend upon independence of the banking system in itself .
17 I think you should also have pointed out that cruise will make future arms control negotiations much more difficult as it is an almost ‘ unverifiable ’ weapon .
18 Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible .
19 In no domain is it as difficult as it is in the matter of function and utility to distinguish the actual place of artefacts in human practices from the particular legitimations and assumptions we have about them .
20 Mr Harvey McGregor has said in McGregor on Damages , ( 15th ed Sweet & Maxwell 1988 , para 1588 ) : It may be argued that the benefit of a mother 's personal attention to a child 's upbringing , morals , education and psychology , which the services of a housekeeper , nurse or governess could never provide has , in the long run , a financial value for the child difficult as it is to assess .
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