Example sentences of "it [is] hard [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no traffic connections it 's hard to reach any spot in the town except on foot , which is very dangerous . |
| 2 | But it 's hard to shed that reductionist jargon , the vocabulary of the narrow path . |
| 3 | Sometimes it 's hard to do that in the USA . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was Newley 's ex-wife and Rossiter 's Cinzano co-star , Joan Collins , who volunteered this judgement , for it 's hard to find any other connection between a strictly domestic sitcom performer and one of the highest-earning acts in Vegas and Atlantic City . |
| 6 | Now that all the usual street noises are back in place it 's hard to think this is not a normal day . |
| 7 | they 'd be all sorts of ways in which they could of kept the agented funds , erm they could of been , but it 's hard to imagine that , that |
| 8 | It 's hard to shake that off . |
| 9 | So she 's not God I ca n't believe it , it 's hard to believe that , okay now I 'm doing the same only with you lot . |
| 10 | It 's hard to believe such great fishing could be such good value for money until you try it yourself . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's hard to believe such a vivacious personality is lost to us ’ , ’ Dysart was quoted as saying 'and harder still to accept that the stand I have taken against terrorism may have brought about her death . ’ ’ |
| 12 | It 's hard to believe another child could do such a thing . |
| 13 | So much has been written about this band , their every move painstakingly analysed , that it 's hard to add any startling insight , any new interpretation to the minutiae of Shaun 's behaviour . |
| 14 | It is hard to resolve this trade-off a priori , but one possibility is to allow all firms to participate in a co-operative project , but not necessarily in the same project , using competition between co-operative R&D projects to inhibit the generation of some of the negative externalities discussed above . |
| 15 | It is hard to justify such a relationship from a moral perspective . ' |
| 16 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 17 | Even under the microscope , it is hard to detect any structure , because of the bewildering variety of nerve fibres criss-crossing one another . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is hard to explain some of the oddities even of modern Greece by the history of the past 500 years . |
| 20 | It is hard to explain this unless , in the subject 's brain , the representation of one shape is rotated until it matches the representation of the other . |
| 21 | It is hard to forgive this . |
| 22 | The reader will probably have some ideas about why this might be , but it is hard to test such ideas . |
| 23 | It is hard to revise that opinion , having seen the early results . |
| 24 | Genetic variation could result from a balance between mutation and selection , or from balancing selection alone ; given the general difficulties of finding the causes and genetic basis of polygenic variation , it is hard to take this line of evidence further . |
| 25 | With that said , however , it is hard to see this having a great deal of effect on safety in residential areas in Britain . |
| 26 | On the evidence available from their thorough training sessions and the way they brushed aside the challenge from a truly competitive outfit here , it is hard to see these All Blacks returning home as ‘ failures ’ . |
| 27 | He could start with a win against Frederik Johnson , the Swedish international , but it is hard to see any of the other rejects surviving , except perhaps Jamie Hickox or Chris Walker . |
| 28 | Some authorities specify three sinks for dishwashing and allied work but it is hard to see any justification for them . |
| 29 | As for desidero , it is hard to see any difficulty , for it means quite simply ‘ I desire ’ , and is in exactly the same mould as traditional expressions such as volo , ‘ I wish ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |