Example sentences of "difficult it is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |
| 2 | As a general rule , the older and more stable the community , the more difficult it is to penetrate . |
| 3 | On the other hand , we realize how difficult it is to use the law to bring these rogue employees to task . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | difficult it is to stop and how people are feeling vulnerable about trying to stop we 've got to su su , sto sa sa stop them starting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The more studies that are done that come up with this same finding , the more difficult it is to dismiss them . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The controversy that has surrounded Brenner 's results illustrates how difficult it is to draw firm conclusions about the role of any one factor , such as unemployment , on a state as loosely defined as ‘ health ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | How difficult it is to listen to others ! |
| 15 | You can imagine how difficult it is to do such a thing . |
| 16 | The more complex the banking system , the more difficult it is to do this . |
| 17 | 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest . |
| 18 | It is tough , but with top quality artists we have a responsibility to offer their music to the public , however difficult it is to let them hear it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 21 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 22 | The further away the centre of power , the more difficult it is to complain . |
| 23 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 30 | In accounting for the failure of the " Fifteen , historians sympathetic to Jacobitism tend to stress how difficult it is to launch a successful invasion , and that all the trump cards lie with the government of the day . |