Example sentences of "the more difficult it is " 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 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 .
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 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 ) .
5 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 .
6 As a general rule , the older and more stable the community , the more difficult it is to penetrate .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 ) .
13 But the more extensive and varied the corpus of writings , the more difficult it is to identify a common set of linguistic habits .
14 The further away the centre of power , the more difficult it is to complain .
15 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 .
16 The more complex the banking system , the more difficult it is to do this .
17 But the briefer a sound is , the more difficult it is to make it energetic enough to produce a decent echo .
18 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest .
19 ‘ The more studies that are done that come up with this same finding , the more difficult it is to dismiss them . ’
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