Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] hard [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |
| 2 | Great wines they may be , but it is hard to define these wines as good sparkling wines and classic Champagnes they most certainly are not . |
| 3 | The reader will probably have some ideas about why this might be , but it is hard to test such ideas . |
| 4 | In existing housing areas it is hard to see any changes at all , despite the fact that so many of these are extremely unsafe by comparison with newer areas . |
| 5 | The demons of early agony of being abandoned when left alone for longer than we could bear it , the terror of being annihilated by a raging adult , the suffocating experience of being trapped in the tunnel of our mother 's body with a cord tightening round our neck … it is hard to face those feelings again . |
| 6 | Besides — and in the way the French Army of those days functioned it is hard to believe such considerations did not pass through Joffre 's mind — if things went badly wrong henceforth at Verdun , the Generalissimo 's responsibility would now be shared by another . |
| 7 | It will take the London office market years to recover from the 1980s hangover and it is hard to identify any areas of growth other than building all-seater football stadiums . |
| 8 | It is hard to read these sentences without a smile . |