Example sentences of "[Wh adv] difficult it " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't know how difficult it is . ’ |
| 2 | Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing . |
| 3 | 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 … . |
| 4 | One , a punk , talked about the village in Wales where she lives and how difficult it is to be different , so that dyeing her hair blue becomes an extremely powerful statement about herself , saying all the things she wants to about her rejection of the values of the people in her village . |
| 5 | I think this is about our physical boundaries again , as it was in Alison 's story , showing how fragile the self-image of girls can be , how easily invaded by others — and also , how difficult it is to like your body if it is curvaceous , if you are naturally fleshy , fat , large-breasted or pear-shaped , as many of us are . |
| 6 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 7 | But it was also another uncomfortable reminder of how difficult it will be for Tottenham to replace him . |
| 8 | No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be . |
| 9 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 10 | It has been recognised how difficult it is to attribute accurately the effect of humans on soil erosion ( Stocking 1978b : 130 ) because of the uncontrolled nature of many other crucial variables , such as climatic change . |
| 11 | He described how difficult it was to interest his seniors in this useful discovery . |
| 12 | Ah , how difficult it is . |
| 13 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 14 | As we walked up the river I began a monologue about how difficult it was to catch Don trout . |
| 15 | He was amazed at how difficult it was , but gradually it eased as she eased , and he noticed that she had wet her dress . |
| 16 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 17 | And imagine how difficult it would be to find a replacement with the same level of knowledge , experience , ability , authority or reputation . |
| 18 | We always knew how difficult it would be to replace any of us — people with our kinds of specialisation do n't grow on trees ! |
| 19 | Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences . |
| 20 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
| 21 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Be realistic about how difficult it is going to be . |