Example sentences of "how difficult [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , perhaps , salutary to reflect upon how difficult we make it for older people to use the range of leisure facilities provided either because of physical access problems , inappropriate classes and high entry costs . |
| 2 | I really do believe sexual possessiveness is something we should struggle against , no matter how difficult we find it . |
| 3 | We have also seen how dependent these private companies are on public finance and how difficult they are to regulate . |
| 4 | When process investigations began to increase in the 1960s it was not realized exactly how difficult they would prove to be . |
| 5 | It just depends how difficult they are to weave and that that usually makes them you know , more expensive . |
| 6 | Despite the bonds around her arms , she managed to pull herself up , determined not to show any sign of how difficult she found it . |
| 7 | ( Practise that defensive movement with a friend and you will be amazed at how fast you can turn to protect yourself , and how difficult you can make it for him or her to hit you . ) |
| 8 | And to a certain extent you can be guided as to which one you 're going to take by how well you how easy or how difficult you found the merit paper . |
| 9 | I still have the dress , which only goes to prove once again how difficult I find it to throw anything away ! |
| 10 | You do n't know how difficult it is . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 16 | But it was also another uncomfortable reminder of how difficult it will be for Tottenham to replace him . |
| 17 | No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He described how difficult it was to interest his seniors in this useful discovery . |
| 21 | Ah , how difficult it is . |
| 22 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 23 | As we walked up the river I began a monologue about how difficult it was to catch Don trout . |
| 24 | He was amazed at how difficult it was , but gradually it eased as she eased , and he noticed that she had wet her dress . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And imagine how difficult it would be to find a replacement with the same level of knowledge , experience , ability , authority or reputation . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |