Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] a hard [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's known as a bit of a smoothie but Nigel Havers has been given a harder edge in his new series , Sleepers , starting next week . |
| 2 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 3 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 4 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 5 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 6 | Shock-absorbing devices of many types have been given a hard look . |