Example sentences of "it [is] hard " in BNC.

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1 It 's hard work but very rewarding .
2 ‘ You can be perfectly well with HIV but at other times it 's hard to do even basic things .
3 ‘ Yeah , it 's hard at first .
4 We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon .
5 Perhaps it was Newley 's ex-wife and Rossiter 's Cinzano co-star , Joan Collins , who volunteered this judgement , for it 's hard to find any other connection between a strictly domestic sitcom performer and one of the highest-earning acts in Vegas and Atlantic City .
6 It 's hard to imagine Mr Fogg , for example , ever having been a train-spotter : if there was any train-spotting to be done , Mr Fogg would have despatched his loyal French manservant Passepartout to do it on his behalf .
7 We are hopeful these figures show the numbers are reducing but it 's hard to say for sure .
8 The Corrado 's chassis is first class , but watch it attacking a series of bends and it 's hard to understand why .
9 It 's hard to believe that a car as heavy as the SL can generate such massive grip , yet retain an admirably accomplished ride .
10 It 's hard to see Chrysler making serious inroads into the European sporting saloon market with the Dodge Spirit R/T .
11 It 's hard to think of another .
12 With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week .
13 It 's hard to believe Marie 's got a husband .
14 I ca n't see the park no more , so it 's hard to tell where I am .
15 It 's hard to concentrate on a book with all these people around .
16 It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker .
17 It 's hard to believe it can see anything with them eyes .
18 I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass .
19 I think they 're my fingers , but it 's hard to tell .
20 It 's hard to imagine a vast country like Brazil totally stripped of forest but it could happen unless we re-double our efforts now .
21 It 's hard to tell yet which of West Berlin 's identities attracts the ‘ Ossies ’ most .
22 ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor .
23 ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor .
24 But let's hope the piana is only an upright : it would be a shame if the child who wants an organ has to go without and it 's hard to see how Santa would manage with a Steinway grand .
25 This area is physically remote from the rest of the USA and , without sympathetic media support , it 's hard to get the news out .
26 But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries .
27 I think it 's hard to be honest with yourself about certain things and I wanted to think that I had no part in the grandiosity of MainMan and a lot of the bad things about MainMan .
28 But it 's hard to talk about it .
29 It 's hard to refuse a neighbour , as you have to go on living near them , so she agreed to lend the front lawns for a folklore festival , attended by ‘ ethnic ’ people with flowing skirts and hair .
30 It 's hard to understand people even — perhaps especially — one 's own family .
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