Example sentences of "difficult it is [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 You can imagine how difficult it is to do such a thing .
3 The more complex the banking system , the more difficult it is to do this .
4 From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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 Do you know know difficult it is to make this thing go slowly ? ’
9 In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain 's economic problems .
10 The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children
11 The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children .
12 My chairman knows more than anyone how difficult it is to obtain good quality samples of natural conversational data .
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