Example sentences of "it is hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardest for your year because you 've known other people to have erm |
| 2 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 3 | It is harder to predict the length of a financial-led recession than a manufacturing-led one . |
| 4 | It is harder to be confident about Romania , if only because politicians there , of whatever stripe , mostly treat their opponents as liars and scoundrels . |
| 5 | With fighting on the highways , it is harder than ever to shift food to where it is needed . |
| 6 | It is harder to defeat the chronic low productivity of the state farms , and the frailties of the distribution chain . |
| 7 | It is harder to tap international markets for short-term capital ( though not impossible : Eurocommercial paper provides a way ) , but it is the cost of long-term capital that ought to be compared with potential investment projects . |
| 8 | It is harder to recognize the vertebrates as a natural group , and harder still for the molluscs ( snails , clams , squids ) , because the similarity is of basic anatomy , and there are vast differences in shape and habits . |
| 9 | One of the reasons why it is harder to run classes in Ipswich is not so much the diversity of entertainment provided but the overlapping of cultural activity , The WEA offers a broad cultural front , and a Branch in a village is the fount of all learning , but in a large town the musicians … artists and dramatists … historians and archaeologists have respective organisations catering for their taste , even the natural scientists do … |
| 10 | While we can appreciate that Christian worship is joy , it is harder to believe in what the poet George Matheson called ‘ Joy that seekest me through pain ’ . |
| 11 | He appreciates their design features : what a kangaroo gains and loses by moving in leaps , why horses change gait , why it is harder to walk quickly than to jog at an easy pace . |
| 12 | On insularity and lack of adventure it is harder to find a defence for the agency . |
| 13 | It is harder but more permanent , once it is gone , that is it . |
| 14 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 15 | It is difficult at any time to represent a large body of one 's fellows ; in these critical days of reconstruction it is harder than ever . |
| 16 | No name as yet , but with a grade of E8 , 7a , it is harder than Agincourt and is arguably the hardest ( or most powerful ) route in America . |
| 17 | However , it is harder to see why age should be directly related to poverty in the years after retirement . |
| 18 | ( It is harder to see why γ should help α to resist a challenge by Β ) If the alternative strategies are ‘ resist only challenges to oneself , and ‘ resist any challenge ’ , the latter would be favoured by selection provided that it was usually advantageous . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it is certainly true that it is harder for specialist literature in German to be accepted . |
| 20 | There is a second impressionist guess , however , which it is harder to document . |
| 21 | Type A is the easiest to make and costs least , though it is harder to see the caterpillars in this kind of cage . |
| 22 | It is harder to stay behind the rostrum and teach without learning " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The crude facts about the tyrannies are easily stated ; it is harder to get at the truth about what the tyrannies were like . |
| 25 | In specialist chambers ( such as taxation , family law , employment law , company law , local government law , town and country planning , rating , commercial law , shipping , restrictive practices , libel law , and patent ) , it is harder for the beginner to get a start and less likely that the incompetent can make headway . |
| 26 | It is harder to build than to destroy . |
| 27 | Canadian labour education is by no means a model of good practice , but if it is possible for unions with far weaker traditions of political affiliation and shopfloor militancy than in Britain to stray beyond the circumscribed perimeters of the workplace in their training , then it is harder still to accept the myopic parochialism of much current British practice . |
| 28 | Moreover , whereas it may be easy to collect fixed charges from consumers with telephone or gas installations , it is harder to enforce a fixed charge for the right to travel by rail and a fare per journey reflecting marginal cost . |
| 29 | It is harder than you think to actually stir yourself and make the effort to put a good idea into practice . |
| 30 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |