Example sentences of "it was hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 2 | It was hard work — but it was worth it ! |
| 3 | But it was hard to pick out faces that he knew in the swaying mass of heads . |
| 4 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It was hard for Satan alone to mislead the whole world , ’ declared the grandson of the BeSHT , Nachman of Bratislava , in one of his more caustic diatribes , ‘ so he appointed rabbis in different locations . ’ |
| 6 | And then , because her first effort had been wrong , it was hard to know , now , if or when she was ready . |
| 7 | Also it was hard to know what to say to Anne — that 's my wife — when she asked each evening ‘ How was your day ? ’ |
| 8 | It was hard to top Michael Caine , and later the woman confessed she was n't even sure about that one . |
| 9 | It was hard , perilous work which , by rockfall or dust , killed most of the men employed in it before their retirement age , and it left Evan with the gasping lungs of the silicosis-sufferer . |
| 10 | ‘ I expected it to be hard because , when we tested here last February , I did a full race distance and it was hard work , very painful . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It was hard to believe the change you could see by moving just a couple of kilometres out of West Germany , one of the richest countries in the world . ’ |
| 12 | ... it was hard to look at him . |
| 13 | No doubt it was hard to dismantle , or even dent , the consensus policies of thirty-five years at a stroke . |
| 14 | Without a political initiative , however , it was hard to see how economic progress could be made . |
| 15 | Being a radical experimental company of the time , given to onstage nudity , we were no strangers to Beth 's voluptuous physique and it was hard to suppress our giggles at the absurd movie , in which a deformed , slobbering handyman ogles and gropes our heroine before coming to a violent end . |
| 16 | It was hard , very hard . |
| 17 | It was hard to be a hero one day and a ‘ has-been ’ the next . |
| 18 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 19 | Any match of nine tries ( five by Stanley 's ) is bound to be entertaining but Oxford committed so many errors in every department that it was hard to keep a straight face while assessing their contribution . |
| 20 | It was hard and they hurt , but you soon learn to accept it and respect them as they do you . |
| 21 | It was hard and they hurt , but you soon learn to accept it and respect them as they do you . |
| 22 | When the champion hurdler , Beech Road , and Morley Street won at Cheltenham ten days ago it was hard to say which put up the better performance and which would be the stable 's first choice for the Champion Hurdle should both be trained for the race . |
| 23 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 24 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 25 | By nature , he was a gentle , sensitive man , and even in the throes of angry threats against whites it was hard to hide a smile , for he loved what the blacks call ‘ selling wolf tickets ’ , tricking people into fear . |
| 26 | But this was Ray Shallows ' kingdom and it was hard to escape from his flood of ecstasy . |
| 27 | It was hard to tell with someone like him . |
| 28 | It was hard to see and he touched the stones as he walked along by the wall . |
| 29 | It was hard , though . |
| 30 | After that long interval it was hard to get started again . |