Example sentences of "it hard [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most indulgent husband would find it hard to forgive this foolish wife . |
| 2 | Owen found it hard to take such incidents seriously . |
| 3 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |
| 4 | At first , I found it hard to credit such an error to my father . |
| 5 | Finally , there are political reasons : people do not , on the whole , enjoy moving away from their communities and politicians find it hard to ignore these feelings . |
| 6 | And , as in Rome , you 'll find it hard to resist all the wonderful shops — especially the beautiful leather shoes and handbags . |
| 7 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 8 | After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio . |
| 9 | Those who have campaigned on behalf of Wallenberg find it hard to believe that , in a bureaucratic system like the Soviet Union 's , a file on the missing Swede is not somewhere . |
| 10 | ‘ I find it hard to believe that . ’ |
| 11 | Still I find it hard to believe most men would want to cede their privilege and power on the evidence you present . |
| 12 | When , later , I joined the Civil Service , I found it hard to follow that rule since I was constantly required to lie . |
| 13 | The most detailed discussion of the difference between fall-rise and the ‘ compound ’ fall-plus-rise is Sharp ( 1958 ) , though this is not easy reading and many will find it hard to follow some of the examples . |
| 14 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 15 | At his age he would find it hard to get another . ’ |