Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] hard [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Leather corals lack the hard calcium carbonate skeleton of stony corals .
2 The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better .
3 Therefore the MPs in question are unlikely to have lined up lucrative jobs that preclude the hard slog of putting black upon white .
4 top the hard coal was next shaft to what ours was .
5 People say the hardest job in the game is putting the ball in the net , but that 's not true .
6 I have always thought that league results are what matter most to Motherwell and I expect a harder game than were given that day . ’
7 Install a hard drive instead of one of the floppies — the advantage of this is that it is the least expensive but the major disadvantage is my complete lack of technical knowledge and the need to purchase and install the controller which I understand my machine does not have .
8 Install a hard disk card — the advantage of this is the apparent ease of installation , also it is completely additional and leaves the two existing floppy drives , again the disadvantages are cost and potential damage which I could cause installing it .
9 Also , it is much harder to train the back muscles and receive a hard pump .
10 Open up — watch the hard rasp as the key slides into the lock — and step inside .
11 They tolerate temperatures from the upper 60s to the mid 80°s ; F , and enjoy the hard water most of us have on tap .
12 Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched .
13 Watch a hard porn film 28%
14 Read a hard porn magazine 21%
15 Read a hard porn magazine 19%
16 The tourists anticipate a harder time than recent evidence in Welsh and Irish rugby might have suggested to them .
17 ‘ If we give a hard message it 's based on a good knowledge of their world .
18 For example , a judge who acquires a reputation among his seniors for being ‘ soft ’ in certain types of cases where the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice , the Master of the Rolls and other senior judges favour a hard line is as likely to damage his promotion prospects as he would if his appointment were found to be unfortunate on other more obvious grounds .
19 Credit control the hard way
20 For each hard copy run , this file must be edited to contain several keywords which control the hard copy run .
21 name the hard copy volume name , up to 12 characters long including spaces .
22 ‘ You drive a hard bargain , but I 'll go along with that . ’
23 But does their mother think they get a hard time at school from the locals ?
24 I reckon the hardest part would be getting it going , distributing preliminary material , and conducting the pre-season auction .
25 Delete the ordinary hyphen in ‘ Templeton-Brown ’ and insert a hard hyphen
26 Temptress Melanie Williams and partner in crime Eric Gooden refuse to ‘ Jump on to any bandwagons , even with new technology ’ and got their deal with Virgin 's Ten label the hard way .
27 Any inadequacy in the match between an articulated research programme and observational data is to be attributed , not to assumptions that constitute the hard core , but to some other part of the theoretical structure .
28 The starting premiss here coincides with what is basically the common sense belief , viz. that things or entities constitute the hard core of reality .
29 They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience .
30 It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries .
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