Example sentences of "[Wh adv] difficult it [modal v] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | And imagine how difficult it would be to find a replacement with the same level of knowledge , experience , ability , authority or reputation . |
| 3 | The Belgrade conference on security and co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) of 1977–8 , designed to follow up the 1975 Helsinki decisions , proved how difficult it would be to break down East-West suspicions . |
| 4 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 5 | He wondered how difficult it would be to make love with his arm in a sling . |
| 6 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 7 | Nor did I realize how difficult it would be to face up to going back . |
| 8 | You would have to eat about a dozen apples in order to obtain that average daily 5 oz of sugar from this source ; you can imagine how long that would take and how difficult it would be to eat all the remainder of your daily food . |
| 9 | " But if I do n't have that name you 'll walk the streets too — and you know how difficult it will be to find another position without references . " |
| 10 | A moment 's thought soon shows how difficult it will be to achieve this if conventional training routes are followed ! |
| 11 | This example serves to indicate how comparatively easy it is to legislate for change and how difficult it can be to implement the legislation . |
| 12 | West mercia police are taking this car onto the streets to show how easy it can be for thieves , but also how difficult it can be made for them . |
| 13 | We all know how difficult it can be to arrange for a contractor to carry out repairs to our home . |
| 14 | This rather long discussion of the phonemic status of and shows how difficult it can be to reach a conclusion in phonemic analysis . |
| 15 | At Amsterdam Travel Service , we know how difficult it can be to discover who is playing where and when and how tricky it can be to find out how to buy those all important tickets . |
| 16 | It is understandable if we consider the wide diversity of marine invertebrates how difficult it can be to read from their behaviour just what is going on . |
| 17 | ‘ This sounds easy but in fact proved how difficult it can be to stand back and identify every activity carried out in your own workplace ( and those that maybe are n't but should be ! ) where standard procedures should be employed . |
| 18 | However overinflated the Aden myth may subsequently have become , however difficult it might be to disentangle the truth of the episode from the fictionalised version purveyed through romanticised images of tortured adolescence , the exotic Mid-East , the rejection of Western culture , the Rimbaldian quest for personal salvation , and so on , one stark fact remains . |
| 19 | A ‘ pact with the Soviet Union to defend democracy against fascism ’ sounded like a very different proposition from an ‘ alliance with Russia to sustain the British Empire against German imperialism ’ — however difficult it might be to distinguish the two things in practice . |
| 20 | Its object is concerned with inflation , with preventing or restraining a general fall in the value of money , as seen in a general rise in prices — however difficult it may be to attach a precise concept to a ‘ general rise ’ in prices . |