Example sentences of "hard to think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that .
2 It is hard to think of many foreign governments the KGB has overthrown as , for example , the CIA did in Chile .
3 It is hard to think of many instances where Russia has been able to outsmart the West politically as the result of its intelligence operations .
4 ( Chiang Kai-shek was not specifically mentioned but it is hard to think of other forces that might have been available . )
5 It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart .
6 Over the last few miles to your overnight spot it 's often hard to think of much else except getting a hot meal and a drink — quickly .
7 ASK WHAT HE 'S AFRAID OF , and he finds it hard to think of one thing .
8 Of all the products in the world , it is hard to think of one with which English soccer has less need to be associated than lager .
9 It 's hard to think of another .
10 Furthermore , it makes the document so much more ‘ professional ’ that it 's hard to think of another single step that can such benefits .
11 I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire .
12 It is hard to think of any British rock , for instance , that 's sufficiently ignorant to consist of nothing but screamworthiness alone .
13 As a result it is hard to think of any technical innovations , whether in the military or civilian field , that Russia does not know about .
14 It is hard to think of any aspect of Gertrude Stein 's Three Lives that has not been covered , except the exploratory and explanatory uses to which she puts the black woman who holds centre stage in that work .
15 As it is now hard to think of any disorder , physical or mental , that does not have some element of the psychological in its origin , we can , I hope , reject the pejorative meaning .
16 It is hard to think of any comparable figure in medieval English history who lived so long , travelled so widely , or had a career so diverse and adventurous .
17 Thus there are two different intensional relations behind the two different versions of the second sentence in ( 21 ) , even though it is hard to think of any circumstances whatever ( other than metalinguistic ones ) in which they could have different truth values : ( 22 ) ( 23 ) ( We use as the symbol for assignment of equation . )
18 It is hard to think of any useful commodity that was not on offer in this thriving market town .
19 But I think this is it 's very close to science fiction — it 's very hard to think of any biological argument which makes the probability of intelligent life evolving high .
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