Example sentences of "difficult it is [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |
| 2 | Darwin 's theory provides a classic example of how difficult it is to draw a sharp distinction between ‘ natural history ’ and ‘ biology ’ : the process of evolution must of necessity mediate between the reproductive process that maintains the population and the environment to which the population must adapt . |
| 3 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 4 | In accounting for the failure of the " Fifteen , historians sympathetic to Jacobitism tend to stress how difficult it is to launch a successful invasion , and that all the trump cards lie with the government of the day . |
| 5 | Hunters often complain about how difficult it is to get a dead mountain goat down from a mountain — it simply will not slide easily across snow . |
| 6 | And , as I stressed earlier , the props for such beliefs come from within the black community : black kids tell each other stories about how difficult it is to get a decent job if you are black and , in a self-fulfilling way , it does becomes difficult . |
| 7 | Bast tells Helen Schlegel how difficult it is to get a job in Edwardian England . |
| 8 | We have seen how difficult it is to gain a horizontal flow with such limited material , and that the resulting music is inevitably fairly static . |
| 9 | But the more extensive and varied the corpus of writings , the more difficult it is to identify a common set of linguistic habits . |
| 10 | Then : ‘ I know from personal experience how difficult it is to write a book . |