Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] hard [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 There has , then , in the higher education curriculum , to be major elements of immediate experience and personal responsibility even in the fields where students are having to work extraordinarily hard simply to acquire formal knowledge .
2 Alice had to breathe really hard not to cross the road there , for although the old woman always smiled , the hallway behind her was dark brown and went on forever .
3 Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin .
4 Whereas in most databases you have to go to quite a lot of effort to create the linked structure , in Delta Five it is expected that your databases will have this structure , and you have to work quite hard not to conform !
5 ‘ We have to work very hard not to treat the very frail old people as children .
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