Example sentences of "how difficult [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do we know how difficult something is ? |
| 2 | You do n't know how difficult it is . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 7 | No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be . |
| 8 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 9 | It has been recognised how difficult it is to attribute accurately the effect of humans on soil erosion ( Stocking 1978b : 130 ) because of the uncontrolled nature of many other crucial variables , such as climatic change . |
| 10 | Ah , how difficult it is . |
| 11 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences . |
| 14 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
| 15 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 16 | It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet . |
| 17 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Be realistic about how difficult it is going to be . |
| 20 | It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice ! |
| 21 | How difficult it is to listen to others ! |
| 22 | If only you readers realised how difficult it is attempting to open envelopes without the gift of arms you 'd send postcards instead ! |
| 23 | It is surprising how difficult it is . |
| 24 | Two independent vets explained how difficult it is to determine the age of a dog after it is a year old . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ You just can not believe how difficult it is , ’ said one successful candidate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |