Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] hard [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for guidelines is not hard to find . |
| 2 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 3 | The reason for the attraction of the wool is not hard to find . |
| 4 | The length of an interview is very hard to predict . |
| 5 | A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The poem which leads you on to too many different visual experiences is very hard to illustrate . |
| 8 | The symbolism is not hard to follow in terms of Bunyan 's own experience . |
| 9 | The fact that drivers — unlike , say , factory workers — have to work independently to some extent , so that their schedules can not be fixed in advance , is one reason why employment law is particularly hard to grapple with in the haulage industry . |
| 10 | Turning to performance , on one level at least , the Linn is very hard to fault . |
| 11 | A highly crafted , hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest . |
| 12 | This question is much harder to answer . |
| 13 | All this means , of course , that Meatless Days is much harder to read than The Knox Brothers . |
| 14 | There is no really well-defined pattern , but the constellation is not hard to identify , because it lies more or less between Altair and Fomalhaut ; the line of three stars of which Altair is the central member points to it . |
| 15 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 16 | In the other two Neville lordships indirect evidence of this kind is now all that is available and continuity is accordingly harder to prove , although there is no reason to believe that it was any less marked . |
| 17 | In the other two Neville lordships indirect evidence of this kind is now all that is available and continuity is accordingly harder to prove , although there is no reason to believe that it was any less marked . |
| 18 | There 's about 300 of us in the team and the cash is very hard to come across . |
| 19 | ‘ Just that sometimes the truth is far harder to admit to than lies . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The truth is sometimes hard to accept , ’ Sister Cooney had said , her sharp face kindly and concerned . |
| 21 | As stated in the introduction , while the replacement of a fleet of buses by a transport authority is relatively straightforward , the choice of a new motorway scheme by the Department of Transport is far harder to evaluate . |
| 22 | The intuitive judgement of the validity of the proportionality is much harder to make when two senses associated with a single word form are directly contrasted , as in horse : stallion : : dog 1 : dog 2 . |
| 23 | Alpha is not hard to find , because it is decidedly isolated and forms an equilateral triangle with Regulus and Pollux ; it is of type M , and very red as seen with any binoculars . |
| 24 | The reason why sport is such an attraction is not hard to understand . |
| 25 | Evidence is not hard to find to support these assertions . |
| 26 | ‘ Peter 's behaviour is increasingly hard to live with . |
| 27 | The latter offence is an inchoate offence of a familiar kind : possession with intent , in circumstances where an innocent reason for possessing explosives is fairly hard to come by ( unless the defendant is engaged in quarrying or another business in which explosives are used ) . |
| 28 | And though you might not intend to sell him again at the moment , circumstances can change : a horse with a stable vice is always harder to sell than one without , unless he is so fantastically talented that his behaviour can be ignored . |
| 29 | What this transformation will require of companies and top managements is much harder to decipher . |
| 30 | This example is pretty hard to learn by heart and the fingering is n't easy either , so be patient , and take it slowly . |