Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] hard for " in BNC.

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1 We also believe that encouraging minerals operators who want to extend their quarries to show how this ‘ would achieve an enhancement to the local landscape ’ , will make it much harder for planning authorities to refuse extensions where there are clearly no exceptional circumstances involved , just because landscape improvements are proposed .
2 We also believe that encouraging minerals operators who want to extend their quarries to show how this ‘ would achieve an enhancement to the local landscape ’ , will make it much harder for planning authorities to refuse extensions where there are clearly no exceptional circumstances involved , just because landscape improvements are proposed .
3 This will make it extremely hard for some players to get more than two or three of the 11 games in Australia — and that would not be long enough to evaluate the newcomers ' test qualifications .
4 In half-a-dozen cases during 1989 , the court made it much harder for blacks , Hispanics and women who were seeking compensation for job discrimination .
5 Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect .
6 Then there is another point that I have just touched upon : if sin degrades and hardens us , then this will affect our emotional response anyway and make it even harder for the cross to be effective in inspiring us to change our way of living .
7 These dusk sets make it much harder for observers to see what is happening , and also make a successful backdown less likely .
8 But the West has manufactured substitutes and commodity prices have crashed — making it increasingly hard for Third World countries to earn enough to repay their debts .
9 Defeat in Canada merely sharpened France 's desire for revenge in Europe and as October gave way to November conditions in the Channel and Bay of Biscay worsened , making it ever harder for the British squadrons to hold their stations .
10 The malodorous slime has the dual effects of choking anyone too near the Troll and also making it extremely hard for an attacker to land a blow .
11 As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip .
12 As we shall suggest later , the relationships in which the inhabitants are enmeshed often encourage soil degradation and erosion in fragile environments — which has the effect of a vicious circle and makes it even harder for transitional and progressive technical ( and political ) changes to be made .
13 ‘ That vision makes it much harder for her to accept . ’
14 Thus it is not clear what it would be like to regard all actions as requiring non-intentional explanation , and this makes it much harder for the individualist to argue that , whatever it would be like , it is out of the question .
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