Example sentences of "but it [is] hard [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could start with a win against Frederik Johnson , the Swedish international , but it is hard to see any of the other rejects surviving , except perhaps Jamie Hickox or Chris Walker . |
| 2 | Some authorities specify three sinks for dishwashing and allied work but it is hard to see any justification for them . |
| 3 | As Duncan rather carpingly points out , age is a ratio scale but it is hard to see any analysis of age as a variable which exploits this fact . |
| 4 | But it is hard to resist this plan put before me and indeed it ought to be tried since I have no other resource . |
| 5 | The reader will probably have some ideas about why this might be , but it is hard to test such ideas . |
| 6 | Great wines they may be , but it is hard to define these wines as good sparkling wines and classic Champagnes they most certainly are not . |
| 7 | You get dirty in St Ann 's quite easily , but it is hard to get clean . |
| 8 | They retired from active officership in 1957 but it is hard to imagine either of them not being still fully involved in whatever spheres of service were still open to them , including the all important regular letters to Eva . |
| 9 | An investigation is considered successful if the claimant signs off within 2 weeks of being contacted by an investigation officer , but it is hard to differentiate these from those who would have signed off anyway . |
| 10 | Companies like Sequent Computer Systems Corp and Pyramid Technology Corp are technologically compatible — but painfully small to make much difference , which suggests that a bold move for another technologically compatible company — with a nice sideline fit in telecommunications — Tandem Computers Inc , is the smallest acquisition that would make a real difference — but it 's hard to see cautious Siemens being that bold . |
| 11 | But it 's hard to shed that reductionist jargon , the vocabulary of the narrow path . |
| 12 | they 'd be all sorts of ways in which they could of kept the agented funds , erm they could of been , but it 's hard to imagine that , that |
| 13 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |