Example sentences of "difficult it " 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 ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’
4 Its object is concerned with inflation , with preventing or restraining a general fall in the value of money , as seen in a general rise in prices — however difficult it may be to attach a precise concept to a ‘ general rise ’ in prices .
5 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 .
6 Amery wrote in his diary on 25 August : ‘ Milner once remarked to me in South Africa about the Cabinet of his day , how difficult it was to keep a lot of empty sacks standing up straight … .
7 The larger the largest structure in the universe the more difficult it becomes to reconcile it with the uniform distribution of matter in the early universe .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ .
11 But it was also another uncomfortable reminder of how difficult it will be for Tottenham to replace him .
12 No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be .
13 However difficult it may be , it is worth the effort , both for our own sake and for the sake of the emergent nations of the world .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 He described how difficult it was to interest his seniors in this useful discovery .
17 Ah , how difficult it is .
18 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 .
19 From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles .
20 As we walked up the river I began a monologue about how difficult it was to catch Don trout .
21 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 .
22 The more this principle is understood and the more firmly it is adhered to , whether in practical or in theoretical subjects , the more difficult it will be for a school to organize its teaching .
23 He was amazed at how difficult it was , but gradually it eased as she eased , and he noticed that she had wet her dress .
24 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 .
25 And imagine how difficult it would be to find a replacement with the same level of knowledge , experience , ability , authority or reputation .
26 We always knew how difficult it would be to replace any of us — people with our kinds of specialisation do n't grow on trees !
27 Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences .
28 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 .
29 Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit .
30 One insider explained how difficult it was , with the cuts in secret budgets , to run a proper intelligence operation in Argentina , certainly compared to the late forties and early fifties ( when Churchill sent his task force ) .
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