Example sentences of "[vb past] it hard [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen found it hard to take such incidents seriously . |
| 2 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 3 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 4 | When , later , I joined the Civil Service , I found it hard to follow that rule since I was constantly required to lie . |
| 5 | This type of informal intervention in turn increased confusion over the weight to be attached to the enterprise 's different objectives , and made it harder to co-ordinate political goals and express them in a coherent manner . |