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

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1 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 ’ .
2 You do n't know how difficult it is . ’
3 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 .
4 The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children
5 The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children .
6 We have seen how difficult it is to gain a horizontal flow with such limited material , and that the resulting music is inevitably fairly static .
7 It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet .
8 Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession !
9 ‘ You just can not believe how difficult it is , ’ said one successful candidate .
10 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 .
11 For men under 20 , the job offer arrival rates are at least nine times higher than for men aged 55 and over ( at the mean wage ) , emphasising how difficult it is for older unemployed men to obtain a job .
12 We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition .
13 You know how difficult it is to get your hands on anything these days — and your mother tries so hard to make you look nice .
14 You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter .
15 ‘ I am Barbadian , and I know how difficult it is to get anything done here . ’
16 ‘ I know how difficult it is in London — I suppose tropical fruits would be allowed ? ’
17 We all know how difficult it is for members of the security forces and their families , and we should now be aware that they are at risk all the time .
18 Unfortunately many employees also know how difficult it is for us to stop them simply imposing changes without agreement from the people that are affected .
19 I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’
20 They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations
21 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 .
22 The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers .
23 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 .
24 We said it would be difficult , erm and that discussion has proved how difficult it is to come to a firm conclusion .
25 From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles .
26 The 14-day course of epoetin resulted in only a 9 g/L rise in haemoglobin , illustrating how difficult it is to ‘ override ’ the endogeneous erythropoietin control of red cell production in a non-anaemic individual .
27 and they 're not appreciating how difficult it is for some of them families to send them there .
28 A recent report published by the EOC revealed how difficult it is for girls in YTP .
29 At the end , Slim is the only one who understands how difficult it is for George to take the action that he did , and also why he did it .
30 If only you readers realised how difficult it is attempting to open envelopes without the gift of arms you 'd send postcards instead !
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