Example sentences of "hard [to-vb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are so like the television it 's sometimes hard to see why they are being done on a stage . |
| 2 | It 's not hard to see why they 're currently top of the Local Artists Chart . |
| 3 | If every other advanced democratic country can cope with the challenge of fully democratically elected parliaments , it is hard to see why it should present insuperable problems in Britain . |
| 4 | If in the end science is just about the harmonious reconciliation of the behaviour of laboratory apparatus , it is hard to see why it is worth the expenditure of effort involved . |
| 5 | Indeed , this result is an irresistible inference from the acceptance of the tort of intimidation : if it is a tort by A against C to threaten a wrong to B if B continues to deal with C it is hard to see why it should not be equally tortious to inflict harm on C by committing that wrong rather than merely threatening it . |
| 6 | If it can be abandoned in the case of the personal element of the council tax , it is hard to see why it can not be abandoned immediately for the poll tax . |
| 7 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 8 | It 's not hard to see why she attracted compliments . |
| 9 | The Dutch plan envisages people living closer to their workplace and without that happening it is hard to see how they will be persuaded to leave their cars at home . |
| 10 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |
| 11 | Given that many rural schools do not even have properly equipped science laboratories , it is hard to see how they will be able to afford equipment for carpentry , metalwork and building . |
| 12 | It is hard to see how they benefit the child . |
| 13 | Both are as entitled as any other separating couple to find happiness , though it is hard to see how they will find it with a new partner while remaining married to each other . |
| 14 | It is hard to see how they could escape unscathed . |
| 15 | It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child . |
| 16 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 17 | It 's hard to see how they could ever get to know each other long enough for it to come to this . |
| 18 | Are we to concur with Stevenson 's conclusion ( 1981 ) that ‘ it is hard to see how we can escape in general in organization of service from the broad client groupings , now so deeply entrenched in social service provision and in the linkages which are required with other professions ’ ( p. 100 ) , and if so how are we to select client group(s) ? |
| 19 | On one level it is hard to see how we can avoid reproducing this contradictory space when speaking of the inner city as a place , a fusion of social problems . |
| 20 | It will , however , always be difficult … all we have said about organisation level validation applies to evaluation : it is hard to see how we can evaluate training unless our validation has reached the organisation level … ‘ |
| 21 | It is hard to see how we could know this truth , or even understand what is meant by it , unless we were acquainted with something which we call ‘ I ’ … |
| 22 | A dog may well think that his master is at the door : but unless a dog masters a language it is hard to see how he can think that he is thinking that his master is at the door . |
| 23 | It is hard to see how he can improve regulatory standards without extra resources . |
| 24 | " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time . |
| 25 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 26 | Okay , erm , just carrying on quickly it 's very hard to see how you could account for erm the stuff about reflectives and the polarity items if you did n't have the structures of the kind you get with T one and T two on verb phrases , erm and the reason 's just erm you want that kind of a symmetry between say Florence and herself between their positions in the tree and no one and anyone except you ca n't reverse them , things like that . |
| 27 | If you had less structure as in T three which is a ternary branching tree , instead of binary branching be just an N P B N P , it 's real hard to see how you can account for the data . |
| 28 | On that basis , it is very hard to see how you can achieve productivity gains , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ’ Family commitments , possibly , ’ said Tom , ’ although it 's hard to see how she could fit any in , the hours she works . |
| 30 | If evolution proceeds by a series of small changes , it is hard to see how it could be otherwise . |