Example sentences of "[adv prt] the hard [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within .
2 A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down .
3 Larry lifted the sticky brown carpet , sanded down the hard wood floors , stripped paint from the high beams in the living room .
4 They are ruminants and have special structures in their stomachs ( the rumen ) , containing special micro-organisms which can break down the hard parts of the plants .
5 She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ?
6 Now I came up the hard way , same as you .
7 Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way .
8 Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians .
9 But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours .
10 I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way .
11 Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way .
12 But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester .
13 I 'd come up the hard way you see .
14 Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added .
15 Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that .
16 We looked through the files to see how the big men at the top are sizing up the hard decisions in a man 's life
17 As for Lee Marvin , he eventually gave up the hard liquor .
18 It was this group of active questioners which made up the hard core of the evangelists who spread the new Christian teachings or ‘ Gospel ’ to many parts of the northern hemisphere .
19 The major difference is that whereas in Popper the decisions concern the acceptance of singular statements only , in Lakatos the device is extended so as to be applicable to the universal statements that make up the hard core .
20 In fact the only way to find out just how much space you 're going to get is to fill up the hard disk , but because disk compressors need some room to work , this is n't a particularly healthy idea .
21 It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction .
22 Finding out the hard way .
23 It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year .
24 Peter had found out the hard way .
25 I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase .
26 Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’
27 The trouble is , can we afford to find out the hard way ? ?
28 and let them find out the hard way ?
29 This book is designed to help you cut out the hard work , and instead redirect your energies into formulating a worthwhile , personally relevant and practical route into the kind of nursing which appeals to you or suits you best at this particular stage in your career .
30 Experts say on 12 October it will wipe out the hard disc of any machine it has entered .
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