Example sentences of "[adv] difficult it [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’ |
| 2 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 3 | The larger the number of firms already supplying a market and the more difficult it is for them to collude , the more competition there is likely to be . |
| 4 | Oh , how doubly difficult it was for them both . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |
| 10 | You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter . |
| 11 | A recent report published by the EOC revealed how difficult it is for girls in YTP . |
| 12 | That elected governments find it necessary to bow to the wishes of big privately owned companies , that the organs which so largely shape public opinion can be bought and sold by millionaires and treated by them simply as pieces of private property ( which is ' of course , what they are ) , demonstrates how difficult it is for an active and effective democracy to coexist with monopoly capitalism . |
| 13 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
| 14 | For Dr Petruska Clarkson , Director of the Metanoia Psychotherapy Training Institute the disturbing picture now emerging is a brutally clear example of how difficult it is for a human being to adjust to a radically different reality . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | and they 're not appreciating how difficult it is for some of them families to send them there . |
| 22 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 23 | As Scott later pointed out , he then reversed his usual argument that Gothic did not provide enough light , by explaining how difficult it was for the Speaker to control the sunlight coming through the windows of his house in the Houses of Parliament . |
| 24 | The New York Herald headlined ‘ These Girl 's Do n't Drink , Smoke or Flirt ’ and printed an article , attributed to Mary , in which she explained how difficult it was for her to maintain discipline in a society where young girls were surrounded on every side by such bad examples of free and easy ways in all walks of life . |
| 25 | In this concluding section , we shall look at three quite different examples to see how difficult it was for scholars to achieve a total separation , even assuming they wanted it . |
| 26 | In fact , Galileo 's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) shows how difficult it was for him to pursue such an argument , even had he wished . |
| 27 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 28 | Pregnancy also posed difficulties to those administering health insurance , and this showed how difficult it was for state welfare policies to treat women as both workers and wives and mothers . |
| 29 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |