Example sentences of "hard think [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire . |
| 2 | It is hard to think of any British rock , for instance , that 's sufficiently ignorant to consist of nothing but screamworthiness alone . |
| 3 | As a result it is hard to think of any technical innovations , whether in the military or civilian field , that Russia does not know about . |
| 4 | It is hard to think of any aspect of Gertrude Stein 's Three Lives that has not been covered , except the exploratory and explanatory uses to which she puts the black woman who holds centre stage in that work . |
| 5 | As it is now hard to think of any disorder , physical or mental , that does not have some element of the psychological in its origin , we can , I hope , reject the pejorative meaning . |
| 6 | It is hard to think of any comparable figure in medieval English history who lived so long , travelled so widely , or had a career so diverse and adventurous . |
| 7 | Thus there are two different intensional relations behind the two different versions of the second sentence in ( 21 ) , even though it is hard to think of any circumstances whatever ( other than metalinguistic ones ) in which they could have different truth values : ( 22 ) ( 23 ) ( We use as the symbol for assignment of equation . ) |
| 8 | It is hard to think of any useful commodity that was not on offer in this thriving market town . |
| 9 | But I think this is it 's very close to science fiction — it 's very hard to think of any biological argument which makes the probability of intelligent life evolving high . |