Example sentences of "is [adv] hard [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it stands , the strict inequality ( 9.2 ) is rather hard to handle , but ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.2 ) together are equivalent to ( 9.1 ) together with the inequality : ( These expressions are the objective function values of LP ( 1 , 1 , … , 1 ) . ) |
| 2 | THE Halifax reports that because it is so hard to move house , 41 per cent of borrowers made major improvements last year compared with 37 per the year before . |
| 3 | Breaking up is so hard to do |
| 4 | The product is needed because Tuxedo is so hard to programme , and interfaces have previously had to be written using C. Accell/TP allows you to get to the functionality of Tuxedo using procedure calls . |
| 5 | The number of countries that have H-bombs is limited because the technology for making tritium is so hard to come by . |
| 6 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 7 | Next , I will examine some of the reasons why this cooperation is so hard to achieve . |
| 8 | It is the first sentence which is so hard to compose . |
| 9 | It 's a strange surface because it is so hard to play three good sets in a row on . |
| 10 | The problem is obviously one of deciding how to appraise the evidence presented to us , and the difficulty of the informal interview is that it is so hard to appraise . |
| 11 | Viewed head-on from short range the animal is exceedingly hard to spot , provided it stands still . |
| 12 | This may sound obvious , but it is extremely hard to remember . |
| 13 | In fact , it is extremely hard to determine just exactly where you are experiencing the most hostility and hassle — at home or at work ? |
| 14 | The worrying thing is my signature , which is extremely hard to counterfeit . |
| 15 | It is not difficult , as you will learn , to find readers ; it is dangerously easy to find disciples ; it is extremely hard to find anyone you are personally attached to who will care two hoots about your work . ’ |
| 16 | It is extremely hard to write about even a dozen different people within a relatively short span . |
| 17 | There is a basic flaw in the arguments of the information technologists that is perhaps hard to detect beneath the superficial excitement that the subject generates . |
| 18 | It is perhaps hard to see what Picasso found to admire that was common to both tribal sculpture and the work of Cézanne , two arts which are in many ways diametrically opposed . |
| 19 | Now , with the advent of client-server and departmental computing , it is much harder to generate such economies of scale . |
| 20 | Note that this chart is slightly different from that used for chariots because it is much harder to hit the crew or warhorses on a War Wagon because of the size of the tower . |
| 21 | This question is much harder to answer . |
| 22 | Where issues of supervision are involved , the necessity for practice at the Bar as a qualification for office is much harder to sustain than in relation to trials and appeals involving review . |
| 23 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 24 | Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect . |
| 25 | It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses . |
| 26 | Gay intellectuals may dismiss essentialism as a bogus utopia , but it has provided the emotional power behind a great deal of gay activism — it is much harder to claim civil rights for a discursive construction . |
| 27 | Although in this last case we should note that it is much harder to talk of the sentence being ‘ wrong ’ ; there are circumstances when people validly violate semantic norms , as we shall see . |
| 28 | It is much harder to argue for an unclear and complicated arrangement for arriving at what is taught in schools than for the logic of a national curriculum . |
| 29 | But where a decision affects everyone in general and no one in particular it is much harder to define sufficient interest . |
| 30 | Although uranium can be put to use , and used up , as fuel in existing reactors , plutonium is much harder to get rid of . |