Example sentences of "[noun] it is hard [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result it is hard to think of any technical innovations , whether in the military or civilian field , that Russia does not know about . |
| 2 | With this in mind it is hard to overlook Margery 's first , charitable gift to the needy old lady that she sees : ( " Take , here , flesh [ meat ] and bread as well … " ) |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in the light of these considerations it is hard to escape the impression that , like the Venus of Willendorf , or the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus , the modern welfare state has become the re-embodiment of the primal mother , the abstract , secular , bureaucratic equivalent of the mother-as-breast . |
| 4 | Faced with this combination of forced scrupulosity and ingenious casuistry it is hard to believe that gratuities were an entirely natural and accepted part of the system . |
| 5 | In existing housing areas it is hard to see any changes at all , despite the fact that so many of these are extremely unsafe by comparison with newer areas . |
| 6 | Without inspecting the vehicle it is hard to locate a noise , but the most likely cause is a worn ball joint on top of the rear axle where it is located onto the rear suspension top links . |
| 7 | In attributing origins it is hard to disentangle the input of Ministers and that of officials , or the operational services , political or Parliamentary influences , or interest groups ; nor does the present civil service culture encourage any attempt to do so . |
| 8 | Reading the plan it is hard to see it as the centrepiece of what was billed as the world 's first green election , in September 1989 . |
| 9 | For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters . |
| 10 | How Bunce Court got through the war it is hard to imagine , but get through it did and with flying colours , if the testimony of former pupils is anything to go by . |
| 11 | These days it is hard to say , and not only in the heavyweight division . |
| 12 | To repeat , these days it is hard to recapture the innovative and radical character of variable analysis since it is now so much the orthodox conception of what social research consists in . |
| 13 | In the present climate it is hard to see the function of strikes except in public-sector monopolies . |
| 14 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 15 | At 70mph it is hard to tell what fuels the car , and only at idle , windows down , does the noise start to irritate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Inside Mozambique it is hard to deliver anything safely . |
| 18 | With multinational firms it is hard to say where profits are actually earned . |
| 19 | In the modern material age it is hard to comprehend someone regularly and readily giving up such a vast sum to pursue expensive , unpaid projects , but for Barney it 's important . |
| 20 | In such an environment it is hard to take religion seriously which requires that all these things — good as they may be — must take second place to the cultivation of spiritual values and the worship of God , not gods . |
| 21 | Reader manipulation is another recurring feature that in some ways is obvious looking at how the book is written but as you 're reading the book you 're practically living in it and when you finish it 's almost as if a piece of your daily routine is missing and because it is an integral part of your life it is hard to distance yourself from it and analyse it . |
| 22 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 23 | Although it was a great coup for the KGB , once the pair got to Moscow it is hard to see what they could have told the Russians that was not already known or made any great difference to East-West relations . |
| 24 | The reality is that in most cases it is hard to prove the cheque was issued ‘ knowingly ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What would have happened if Dr Dunstaple had replied to Dr McNab 's challenge it is hard to say . |
| 27 | As Queen Victoria rises from her throne to address the audience it is hard to believe that it is not real flesh and blood ! |
| 28 | Though he does speak a lot it is hard to distinguish the jokes from what he is being serious about . |
| 29 | On insularity and lack of adventure it is harder to find a defence for the agency . |
| 30 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |