Example sentences of "difficult [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get very bored with reading how difficult he is and how cold he is . |
| 2 | It then told me , in some way , that Shaun was being kicked out and it said : Honestly , Sara , you do n't know how difficult he is when you 're not around , ’ she says . |
| 3 | You do n't know how difficult it is . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 10 | No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ah , how difficult it is . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet . |
| 24 | However difficult it is to measure short-term effects of library instruction , it is far more difficult to measure the long-term effects of the instruction given . |
| 25 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Be realistic about how difficult it is going to be . |
| 28 | It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | How difficult it is to listen to others ! |