Example sentences of "[adv] difficult it is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not underestimating him because that would be a serious mistake , but the greater our fear the more difficult it is to view him with that clinical detachment so vital for survival . |
| 2 | 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The further away the centre of power , the more difficult it is to complain . |
| 5 | Try judging distances in an unfamiliar place with just one eye open , for instance , or notice how much more difficult it is to put your finger on a particular spot when one eye is shut . |
| 6 | The more complex the banking system , the more difficult it is to do this . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As a general rule , the older and more stable the community , the more difficult it is to penetrate . |
| 9 | ‘ The more studies that are done that come up with this same finding , the more difficult it is to dismiss them . ’ |
| 10 | But the more extensive and varied the corpus of writings , the more difficult it is to identify a common set of linguistic habits . |
| 11 | Readers of The National Trust Magazine will know from the annual summary of the Trust 's financial position how much more difficult it is becoming to find the resources required to carry out the Trust 's broad conservation responsibilities . |
| 12 | The greater the involvement with those goals , attitudes and feelings , the more difficult it is to change people 's perceptions and to resolve the conflict . |
| 13 | The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle . ’ |
| 14 | The less you have of it as , for example , in a short face-to-face contact , the more difficult it is to impress and/or influence . |
| 15 | The longer one is so possessed , the more difficult it is to exorcise the sasoo spirit , since , ‘ like a real spouse ’ , it merges with the very flesh and bone of the victim . |
| 16 | The obvious problem with information about credit is that , the more people need it ( that is , the groups shown above as most ill-informed about credit , and most likely to use unnecessarily high-cost credit ) the more difficult it is to make sure it reaches them . |
| 17 | But the briefer a sound is , the more difficult it is to make it energetic enough to produce a decent echo . |
| 18 | He thinks about football rigorously , and stresses how much more difficult it is to play against an Italian attack . |
| 19 | The closer the inspection , the less like a ‘ classical ’ demographic transition the British record seems to be , and the more difficult it is to attribute its timing directly to the development of an urban-industrial society ( Woods 1987 ) . |
| 20 | In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain 's economic problems . |
| 21 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 22 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |
| 23 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Darwin 's theory provides a classic example of how difficult it is to draw a sharp distinction between ‘ natural history ’ and ‘ biology ’ : the process of evolution must of necessity mediate between the reproductive process that maintains the population and the environment to which the population must adapt . |
| 27 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 28 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 29 | We have noted just how difficult it is to implement PHC effectively because of administrative inaccessibility of the relevant populations whilst geographically the communities using the health facility may be very close . |
| 30 | Just how difficult it is to move beyond this kind of thinking can be seen from Statement B. Here the principle of continuity is rooted directly in the process of generational transmission . |