Example sentences of "a hard [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emigrant Advice Unit tours school throughout Northern Ireland with a hard hitting message aimed at showing young people that a new life in another country may not be as glamorous as they had imagined . |
| 2 | A hard hitting video aimed at stopping joyriding is released today . |
| 3 | In a hard hitting report , published in July , the influential House of Commons Select Committee on Energy has called on the Government to implement without delay policies to reduce emissions of gases which cause the greenhouse effect . |
| 4 | A hard hitting television campaign , so shocking it ca n't be shown before 9 p.m. , begins tonight . |
| 5 | In the semi-finals Miss Lockhart , very much a hard hitting baseline player , went on to defeat No. 3 seed Lindsay Nimmo in a very close battle , while Nina Topper defeated Maggie Laughton 7–5 6–2 . |
| 6 | Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years . |
| 7 | After the break Smith proved the menacing player for Stockton but he was well dealt with by a hard working Stockton defence . |
| 8 | Oh it was a hard working night for all the women and the dances went on t four o'clock in the morning and a wedding nearly went on all night . |
| 9 | But against that , although I know that he 'd took three or four very good jobs that I ought to have had , but he was a very , very good detective , a hard working inspector . |
| 10 | I gave him a hard releasing shove in the general direction of Sam , Perkin and an open-mouthed Gareth and at last watched a dozen restraining hands clutch and keep him from destroying himself entirely , but he struggled against them and turned his vindictive face my way and shouted in still exploding rage , ‘ I 'll kill you . ’ |