Example sentences of "[adv] it is hard [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggested causes of a given phenomenon can not always be independently observed , and so it is hard to rule out the possibility of there being explanations alternative to the one proposed . |
| 2 | If this is so , then southern , one-party States with large black populations should be even lower welfare spenders than others where the electoral need to spend is weak , although statistically it is hard to separate out this effect because all of the extremely safe Democratic States are relatively poor , have large black populations and are in the South ( Johnston , 1983b ) . |
| 3 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 4 | But realistically it is hard to predict anything other than a 100 per cent success rate for the All Blacks in Ireland . |
| 5 | Today it is hard to realise that the canal was the late eighteenth-century equivalent to the M1 , which lies five miles away to the east . |
| 6 | Looking at the world , and in particular Europe , today it is hard to see how anything the CIA has done in the past 40 years has significantly affected the map of freedom . |
| 7 | Such is the mood of pessimism here it is hard to find anyone who believes the All Blacks , having won their seven matches in Wales , will face any significant threat during the next fortnight . |
| 8 | Surely it is hard to find your way in the dark ? ’ |
| 9 | But Paul knows that sometimes it is hard to put our prayers into words , so the verse includes that ; God is able to do what believers think of . |
| 10 | Sometimes it is hard to love a rebellious and rude teenager , to endure the appalling racket of pop music , to cope with disobedience and flagrant disregard of rules laid down for family life . |
| 11 | If this were true , then it is hard to see how impairments in face processing could be explained so economically in terms of the cognitive modules that functional models contain . |
| 12 | If , as seems likely , the Czechoslovak economy has been largely stagnant for 15 years then it is hard to see how domestic resources could be enough . |
| 13 | But then it is hard to see how that arrangement could be described as , or even contribute to , industrial democracy . |
| 14 | If the normal and primary way of justifying the legitimacy of an authority is that it is more likely to act successfully on the reasons which apply to its subjects then it is hard to resist the dependence thesis . |
| 15 | But then it is hard to imagine Pauline being afraid of anything . |
| 16 | There is much obscurity over his early career and indeed it is hard to state positively and with conviction what Kim did before the end of the Pacific War . |
| 17 | He had my lord 's entire confidence — indeed it is hard to credit that anyone could change so radically as has my uncle . ’ |
| 18 | One great difficulty in the event was that the picture of the man of science as an open-minded searcher after truth does not fit all of them ; indeed it is hard to see how anybody could work in the kind of vacuum envisaged by some of those who invoke a Baconian inductive method . |
| 19 | Indeed it is hard to identify any individual Burgundian as being arian , except for Gundobad , who seriously considered converting to catholicism , and Sigismund , who did convert and was remembered as a martyr . |
| 20 | Yet it is hard to see what violence the police foresaw as direct and immediate . |
| 21 | The British government in 1980 felt that the problem of social security fraud was large enough to justify introducing 1,000 new inspectors ; yet it is hard to see how this problem exceeds that of the health , safety , and welfare of the workforce for whom there are only 900 inspectors . |
| 22 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 23 | Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife . |
| 24 | ‘ Times when it is hard to take yourself to the 1st tee . |
| 25 | It is traditional to praise those who have died , and there are times when it is hard to recognise the person from the fine words , but in this case the words merely reflect a small insight into the very big man and loyal friend called David Pym . |
| 26 | On the contrary : once again it is hard to see what democratic objection there can be to the principle of allowing the people themselves to decide on major issues of principle . |
| 27 | Unless matter enters the Solar System from beyond it is hard to see where any large and prolonged increase in exposure could come from . |
| 28 | Certainly it is hard to see how it is possible to regard , for example , check-out assistants as middle class given their low wages , working conditions , and lack of autonomy at work . |
| 29 | Certainly it is hard to reconcile it with Doukas [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 372 ( CA ) . |
| 30 | Certainly it is hard to believe that bull-leapers grasped the horns , and relied on the tossing movement to get them safely over the bull 's head . |