Example sentences of "difficult it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … . |
| 2 | He described how difficult it was to interest his seniors in this useful discovery . |
| 3 | As we walked up the river I began a monologue about how difficult it was to catch Don trout . |
| 4 | He was amazed at how difficult it was , but gradually it eased as she eased , and he noticed that she had wet her dress . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 11 | The senator had just told me how difficult it was to extract any sense from his son , yet apparently Rickie was not so far gone as the senator had suggested . |
| 12 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |
| 13 | I was observing how difficult it was to arrange a day on the crags with a mountaineering celebrity when the weather is warm and very wet . |
| 14 | The film — screened last May — highlighted how difficult it was to reach a phone box in the middle of a roundabout . |
| 15 | He had just nodded his head , and then returned to the talk about the social evening , and how difficult it was to be safe with prawns , and he had wanted to know if Dan and his lady would be coming to the Service 's New Year 's Eve party . |
| 16 | I had not conducted business in Latin America or in Africa at all , and visits to both countries soon after I was appointed revealed how extraordinarily difficult it was to get an accurate view of both their problems and opportunities merely from reading , no matter how assiduously . |
| 17 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Our third example concerns Newton 's contemporary , Edmond Halley ( c. 1656–1743 ) , whose efforts to investigate the earth 's history independently of Scriptural authority show how difficult it was to achieve a full separation even by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 23 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 24 | It was strange how difficult it was to be alone , especially as no one was anxious to be with me . |
| 25 | How difficult it was , she now reflected , to speak of one 's physical ailments to a person with whom one has dined . |
| 26 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |
| 27 | Miles had been dropping heavy hints about how difficult it was to get petrol and how he intended to use the Cortina ‘ for emergency uses only ’ . |
| 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 | She was about to find out just how difficult it was to live without Julius . |
| 30 | How odd people were , how unpredictable and curious , how difficult it was to know how to behave so that one pleased oneself and society as well . |