Example sentences of "[is] hard see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporary intellectual history is an element in my present enterprise , though the very recent past is hard to see clearly . |
| 2 | If the initiative did not come from their mother it is hard to see either Richard , at fifteen , or Geoffrey , at fourteen , being persuaded to rebel by a man behind the scenes . |
| 3 | Unless matter enters the Solar System from beyond it is hard to see where any large and prolonged increase in exposure could come from . |
| 4 | Reading Dymer today , it is hard to see why . |
| 5 | If every other advanced democratic country can cope with the challenge of fully democratically elected parliaments , it is hard to see why it should present insuperable problems in Britain . |
| 6 | It is hard to see why a code in which GGC means glycine and AAG means lysine is either better or worse than one in which the meanings are reversed . |
| 7 | The USA has imported some really excellent dogs , so many in fact that it is hard to see why the constant influx of new blood is required . |
| 8 | Finally , the false vocal cord theory is supported by the evidence of the simple action of placing your fingers gently on the throat of a purring cat — there is no doubt , then , that the purring sound is stemming from the region of the voice-box , and it is hard to see why any alternative theory should have been put forward . |
| 9 | If in the end science is just about the harmonious reconciliation of the behaviour of laboratory apparatus , it is hard to see why it is worth the expenditure of effort involved . |
| 10 | It is hard to see why these arguments can not be applied ( in differing proportions ) to blues and jazz ; to white American country music ; to their derivatives ( rock 'n' roll , and so on ) ; and to Third World popular musics with links to ‘ folk ’ traditions ( in Latin America , the Caribbean and Africa ) . |
| 11 | It is hard to see why these considerations should have changed under mass culture . |
| 12 | Indeed , this result is an irresistible inference from the acceptance of the tort of intimidation : if it is a tort by A against C to threaten a wrong to B if B continues to deal with C it is hard to see why it should not be equally tortious to inflict harm on C by committing that wrong rather than merely threatening it . |
| 13 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 14 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 15 | Whatever one man tells another about a woman 's sexual inclinations and whether or not she demonstrates her unwillingness , it is hard to see why a man should be able to rely for consent on the word of another man or why there should be no obligation upon him to consult her himself . |
| 16 | Treitel adds ’ But if a son 's promise not to bore his father is not good consideration ( White v. Bluett above , p. 000 ) , it is hard to see why a mother 's promise to make her child happy should stand on a different footing … |
| 17 | If it can be abandoned in the case of the personal element of the council tax , it is hard to see why it can not be abandoned immediately for the poll tax . |
| 18 | It is hard to see why reasonable notice should be an additional requirement where the document concerned is one which a reasonable man would regard as a legal document , to be read carefully for its terms and conditions . |
| 19 | However , given that the disclaimer of responsibility is valid under the UCTA , it is hard to see why such a solution , which puts the buyer in a better position than he would have been in if no express remedies were available , should fall foul of the UCTA . |
| 20 | For instance it may be that , viewed at this point , the woman has a quality of cautious practicality and by comparison the man seems a reckless dreamer , which is hard to see as anything but a weakness . |
| 21 | If this were true , then it is hard to see how impairments in face processing could be explained so economically in terms of the cognitive modules that functional models contain . |
| 22 | And with the ending of merger talks with BZW , it is hard to see how Morgan Grenfell can preserve its independence without falling into the hands of an overseas concern . |
| 23 | If , as seems likely , the Czechoslovak economy has been largely stagnant for 15 years then it is hard to see how domestic resources could be enough . |
| 24 | It is hard to see how Channel 4 Daily , for example , the morning show at present heavily subsidised by TV-am , could ever pay its way . |
| 25 | The Dutch plan envisages people living closer to their workplace and without that happening it is hard to see how they will be persuaded to leave their cars at home . |
| 26 | It is hard to see how any entirely voluntary , market-driven approach to environmental economics could ever overcome , even in theory , the problem of free-riders . |
| 27 | It is hard to see how such a regime could have survived for so long , after bringing such unexampled disaster on its people . |
| 28 | In the first place , actual possession is evidence of ownership , and , except in cases where ownership is based on a system of public registration , it is hard to see how any ownership can be proved , otherwise than by going back to some prior possession . |
| 29 | The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again . |
| 30 | If evolution proceeds by a series of small changes , it is hard to see how it could be otherwise . |