Example sentences of "it is hard [to-vb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to resolve this trade-off a priori , but one possibility is to allow all firms to participate in a co-operative project , but not necessarily in the same project , using competition between co-operative R&D projects to inhibit the generation of some of the negative externalities discussed above . |
| 2 | Genetic variation could result from a balance between mutation and selection , or from balancing selection alone ; given the general difficulties of finding the causes and genetic basis of polygenic variation , it is hard to take this line of evidence further . |
| 3 | But it is hard to resist this plan put before me and indeed it ought to be tried since I have no other resource . |
| 4 | It is hard to reconcile this interpretation with the apparent frugivorous adaptations of Kenyapithecus and the presence in the fauna of at least four other primates ( one other hominoid , one monkey and two small-bodied apes ) , but the interpretation of seasonal forest is consistent with the little that is known about the other afropithecin sites as well . |
| 5 | The problem is that it is hard to equate this kind of growth with that of any known animal group . |
| 6 | It is hard to picture this woman as a gawky teenager , arriving in a new town , terribly self-conscious at being a new student . |