Example sentences of "it hard " in BNC.
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31 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
32 | Freezing rod rings made it hard work in the Wotsits Open on the Trent at Long Higgin where Simon Roff ( Tri-Cast Barnsley ) fished the feeder at long range for three chub to 4 lb 4 oz in a winning 9–3–8 . |
33 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
34 | The couple have a home in Hollywood and a farm in Vermont , but Michael , who is widely regarded in Hollywood as a workaholic , found it hard to put family first and is now keen to produce his own films as well as act in them . |
35 | James Woods finds it hard to hang on to his sanity in this comic role |
36 | And although many architects still find it hard to say Charles 's name without curling their lips , most of them do admit that by bringing the whole subject into the public domain , architecture has had a much-needed shot in the arm . |
37 | Papers like the NME and the Guardian ca n't ignore these masculine genres , but find it hard to understand or reinterpret them : instead they 've devised several strategies for skirting round them . |
38 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
39 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
40 | Other Chilean exiles in France still find it hard to accept him . |
41 | The Government would find it hard to design a student loan system more socially unjust and more likely to deter potential students from less privileged backgrounds , Sir John Kingman , vice-chancellor of Bristol University , said yesterday . |
42 | This would raise a wry smile from the Dutch manager , Thijs Libregts , who is finding it hard to discover a matching pair . |
43 | From the good-time side of the folky American market there is another solid set from The Hooters , one of those bands that would sound ideal in any bar-room , can be guaranteed work on any night of the year , but find it hard getting into the best-sellers . |
44 | Even the most committed opponents of capital punishment will find it hard not to see the Norwegians ' point of view . |
45 | He found it hard to believe that the 3 per cent of allegations of racial discrimination sustained by the authority could reflect the true picture , and he supported an independent investigatory agency to handle all aspects of complaints against the police . |
46 | In fact I find it hard to talk about . |
47 | Many who professed to revere the principle found it hard to like the example they were faced with in Mr Rushdie 's case : the book unreadable and the writer a pain in the neck . |
48 | At the same time , Toyota , Nissan and the others will find it hard to expand if they do not design their cars , and many of the parts contained in them , to meet local tastes and fashions . |
49 | Small wonder that only four months after the Berlin Wall came down East German satirists are finding it hard not to be outdone by reality . |
50 | With both France and Germany in two minds about how and where Europe should be defended , even remodelled European armies will find it hard to march in step . |
51 | But the alliance , if it holds , would reduce Mr Gorbachev 's options in one crucial respect : he would find it hard , if not impossible , to close down the Baltic parliaments without extending the crackdown to Russia itself . |
52 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
53 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
54 | Sometimes she went with him , but found it hard to keep up . |
55 | She had found it hard to reconcile Flora 's intelligence with her old-fashioned wifey-at-home role , retrograde from her schoolmistress mother . |
56 | There is such volubility I find it hard to follow what some people are saying , and they make no compromises for non-native speakers . |
57 | But just as the people in Exodus 16 , when first given the manna , found it hard to come to terms with God 's meticulous generosity , so now they are blinded by the clarity of God 's judgement . |
58 | She 's a little preoccupied at the moment , just an ordinary person finding it hard to deal with the madness that selling vast amounts of records brings . |
59 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
60 | Claudia finds it hard to imagine them doing all of these things in a country garden . |