Example sentences of "how difficult it is " in BNC.

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1 You do n't know how difficult it is . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ .
6 No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Ah , how difficult it is .
10 From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles .
11 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 .
12 Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences .
13 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 .
14 Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit .
15 It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet .
16 We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition .
17 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 ’ .
18 Be realistic about how difficult it is going to be .
19 It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice !
20 How difficult it is to listen to others !
21 If only you readers realised how difficult it is attempting to open envelopes without the gift of arms you 'd send postcards instead !
22 It is surprising how difficult it is .
23 Two independent vets explained how difficult it is to determine the age of a dog after it is a year old .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 ‘ You just can not believe how difficult it is , ’ said one successful candidate .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers .
30 The widespread unease with several of the measures proposed in the welfare reforms felt by many Conservative MPs , demonstrates how difficult it is for any government ( even one with a large parliamentary majority ) to reform the Welfare State .
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