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Example sentences of "how [adj] it [be] for " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He could see how hopeless it was for her .
2	She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy .
3	‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says .
4	‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again .
5	Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse .
6	Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to .
7	You know as well as I do how dangerous it is for a woman alone on the roads — any pervert could pick you up ! ’
8	In few cases was the curriculum criticized adversely , but in one or two cases a particular course was questioned in terms of how appropriate it was for the pupils , or because an aspect of the curriculum was underdeveloped .
9	‘ I 'm sure you know , Inspector , how impossible it is for even the most committed clergy to avoid incurring — not to put too fine a point on it — hatred .
10	Reading or hearing of other pilots ' experiences emphasises how easy it is for even seasoned pilots to make mistakes .
11	It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills .
12	It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do .
13	Control of the rhythm of the lesson will depend partly on the structure of the program and how easy it is for the teacher to use .
14	It 's astonishing how easy it is for us grown-ups to lose touch with the ability to shake off our responsibilities and inhibitions .
15	On the Monday they showed how easy it was for top-class bowlers to pitch the ball up and get wickets .
16	He knew how easy it was for someone to conceal himself amongst the clutter of hanging garments , unseen and unsuspected , while even grown-ups went about their business in ignorance of his presence .
17	OEEC demonstrated how easy it was for policies of coordination to clash with national wishes and interests .
18	A group of fifth form pupils when asked for their response after using a simulation on the Arab-Israeli situation , remarked that one thing it had demonstrated was how easy it was for the countries to slide into war !
19	The accident was seen by Iain Macdonald , a Strathclyde regional councillor who is chairman of the Nuclear Free Zones Scotland organisation : ‘ We have seen with our own eyes how simple it is for a road accident to take place and there is no reason why the convoy itself could not have been involved .
20	By patiently watching and recording hits we can build up a probability profile which will indicate how likely it is for a bullet to hit any particular point on the detector .
21	The measures which we can use include indications that the animal is failing to cope with its environment ( with the difficulties which it encounters ) and measures of how hard it is for that individual to cope with the difficulties .
22	‘ Oh ! if those who rule the destinies of nations would but remember … how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring , when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost , or rather never found , ’ Dickens exclaims in The Old Curiosity Shop .
23	And Dr Neil and Matey — Miss Mates — taught me so much about … life … so much that is useful … and I learned how hard it is for most people to live even halfway decent lives … and now I am home again . ’
24	I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them .
25	And the fire actually started beyond the North Wall , just by the North Gate , but the wind was blowing from the North , and it blew it down , and although it did n't burn the rather better stone houses , facing onto St Aldate 's , erm behind I think a lot of the poorer houses did suffer , and St Ebbe 's parish , next door , suffered a great deal , and because it was war , I think they just , the city council , city records lament that there how hard it is for people , and there 's no money to help them .
26	They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone .
27	She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone .
28	Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’
29	No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be .
30	After he had left the office his senior colleague observed with undisguised admiration how well Fred knew his district and how valuable it was for an officer to have such knowledge at his fingertips .