Example sentences of "it [be] hard " in BNC.
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1 | Suicide tends now to command sympathy , even when the reasons for it are hard to understand . |
2 | Will it be hard for my wife ? ’ |
3 | I do n't know what it were , it were like great big bits of gristle or whatever it is but it were hard . |
4 | Well I can understand it being hard but I equally but you |
5 | It 's hard work but very rewarding . |
6 | ‘ You can be perfectly well with HIV but at other times it 's hard to do even basic things . |
7 | ‘ Yeah , it 's hard at first . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | We are hopeful these figures show the numbers are reducing but it 's hard to say for sure . |
12 | The Corrado 's chassis is first class , but watch it attacking a series of bends and it 's hard to understand why . |
13 | It 's hard to believe that a car as heavy as the SL can generate such massive grip , yet retain an admirably accomplished ride . |
14 | It 's hard to see Chrysler making serious inroads into the European sporting saloon market with the Dodge Spirit R/T . |
15 | It 's hard to think of another . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It 's hard to believe Marie 's got a husband . |
18 | I ca n't see the park no more , so it 's hard to tell where I am . |
19 | It 's hard to concentrate on a book with all these people around . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | It 's hard to believe it can see anything with them eyes . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I think they 're my fingers , but it 's hard to tell . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | It 's hard to tell yet which of West Berlin 's identities attracts the ‘ Ossies ’ most . |
26 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
27 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | This area is physically remote from the rest of the USA and , without sympathetic media support , it 's hard to get the news out . |
30 | 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 . |