Example sentences of "hard to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility . |
| 2 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 3 | Pressure from the public for longer opening hours and at more convenient times makes a comfortable balance between a small and large bureau team hard to achieve . |
| 4 | For couples finding full sexual orgasm or satisfying sex hard to achieve , loving physical closeness and touching are also important . |
| 5 | Apart from some initial instability of woodwind tuning , the orchestra , under its conductor John Forster , worked hard to achieve the necessary space in the opening and at the same time that important sense of continuity . |
| 6 | Plans to sell off businesses to raise cash have proved hard to achieve . |
| 7 | Certainly , a growing number of organisations are trying hard to achieve just that . |
| 8 | ‘ Learned helplessness ’ can become a powerful weapon , and the pressure of anxious attachment from a vulnerable and very elderly parent can make all separations , however life-saving for the carer , hard to achieve . |
| 9 | Both professional organisations and the statutory bodies have worked hard to achieve a career structure which rewards so-called ‘ hands on ’ nursing , and moves away from a system whereby the standard route for promotion is removal from direct patient care into a separate hierarchical management role . |
| 10 | Peggy Rockcliffe has worked hard to achieve its present high degree of comfort , adding bathrooms , a dining room and turning a barn into a spacious sitting room . |
| 11 | Those who , like Iris Murdoch , speak of a ‘ selfless attention ’ to others as a supreme mark of virtue — hard to achieve and harder still , as a duty , to discount — surely imply something like a deep security of inner being . |
| 12 | It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance . |
| 13 | Those who have worked hard to achieve the awards deserve nothing less . |
| 14 | She 'd worked hard to achieve it . |
| 15 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
| 16 | That 's been something hard to achieve with A-levels and GCSEs getting in the way . |