Example sentences of "have a hard [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can still sleep in comfort because one half of the bed has a hard mattress , the other soft . |
| 2 | He has a hard master to satisfy , and nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 3 | Catnip is an example ; Nepeta cataria is the true herb and is the catnip that has a hard life if a cat is part of the household , but Nepeta x faassenii , also sometimes called catnip , is the usual species grown in gardens , with little if any attraction for cats , though it is always alive with bees when in flower . |
| 4 | She has a hard act to follow ; it is never enviable to be the successor of one very powerful founder director be it in the gallery sector or in commerce . |
| 5 | Monty August , 46 , who succeeded Tom Wilding , 61 , as chief executive of UK Paper in May , has a hard act to follow . |
| 6 | His successor , Per Nielsen , comes with impressive credentials but as he will be well aware , he has a hard act to follow . |
| 7 | The ulcer in both sexes has a hard floor , which may feel like a small button just under the skin surface , varying in size from the barely discernible to the size of a finger-nail . |
| 8 | The model proposed by Lakatos , that scientists work in rival ‘ Research Programmes ’ , each of which has a hard core of unchangeable and unchallengeable general assumptions , can show up those programmes which are progressive or stagnating , according to how well novel facts can be confirmed , or if the programme is purely reactive . |
| 9 | ‘ Father has a hard head . |
| 10 | It has a hard fight ahead , one that the nation can not afford to see the BBC lose . |
| 11 | Jack Birkenshaw , back where he has always felt he most belongs , has a hard job ahead in trying to restore Leicestershire to their long-lost glories . |
| 12 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |
| 13 | I do not envy his successor , because he has a hard job in trying to follow him . |
| 14 | But , according to Elland Road boss Howard Wilkinson , he has a hard task to follow the performance of Belgian official Alphonse Constantin in the second round first leg at Ibrox . |
| 15 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 16 | NOTE : In this article it is assumed that your machine has a hard disk called C : and MS-DOS is stored in a directory C : \DOS . |
| 17 | " After all , Clara , you 've had a hard year . |
| 18 | It 's amazing how soldiers in skirts have always had a hard reputation in n it ? |
| 19 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 20 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 21 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 22 | She 's had a hard life , she has — braiding fishing nets for trawlers , cleaning out the Findus offices down dock , gutting fish in the fish market . |
| 23 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 24 | Worse still , he was ungrateful : everyone told him that his mother had had a hard life , that she worked her fingers to the bone , but it meant nothing to him . |
| 25 | Mum 's had a hard life . |
| 26 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 27 | You 've had a hard day , and by the sound of it not an easy life . |
| 28 | Well not too early because he 'd had a hard day . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , I 've had a hard day . ’ |
| 30 | Have you had a hard day at the office ? |