Example sentences of "find [pron] [adv] hard [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 2 | The implications for us are that we shall have to find it very hard to ensure that we get a share of that grant to spend on implementation of the Food Safety Act . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , quite a lot , ’ said Jean , who found it rather hard to explain the number of duels , pursuits on horseback , quick changes of identity and narrow escapes from the authorities he had experienced by the age of twenty-four . |
| 4 | Claud however found it increasingly hard to earn because of his Communist past and it was left to Patricia to keep the various wolves from the door . |
| 5 | One looked at the team and found it desperately hard to agree . |
| 6 | We tried to pull the leg up so that he would n't put so much weight on it , but then he only found it even harder to walk straight . |
| 7 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 8 | Her throat ached and she found it quite hard to swallow . |
| 9 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 10 | ‘ She found it so hard to give up all the solvents . |
| 11 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 12 | She feels deeply rejected by a man who was in fact very shy , and apparently found it extremely hard to express himself affectionately . |
| 13 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 14 | Unfortunately they could not work out how to change the setting from low resolution and FAXgrabber found it really hard to make a good job converting a fax of a press realise announcing its launch . |
| 15 | Our judges found it very hard to choose the winners — the entries were all so good . |
| 16 | Feargal 's blue eyes were impossibly bland and she found it very hard to keep her face straight . |
| 17 | Rain said she found it very hard to believe Maurin responsible . |
| 18 | Only rarely did the artist actually go to where he might see exotic species in the wild — and even if he had gone there always , he would probably have found them very hard to see . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact she finds it quite hard to teach more than one group at a time , and many children spend part of the day on low-supervision activities or ‘ busy-work ’ , which does n't really move their thinking on . |
| 20 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 21 | The promising entrepreneur finds it very hard to compete with multinationals , which can always outproduce him and undercut his prices because of the very scale of their operations and capital . |
| 22 | In our depth interviews , for example ( Appendix II , section 5 ) , there was the man in trouble with the court already who could therefore not get HP — and who bought the settee he wanted with a trading check instead ( even costlier to repay ) , though he doubted his ability to pay it off and was still making payments through the court ; and the woman with so many debts to pay off , afraid of the ‘ loan man 's ’ visit because she finds it so hard to say no to his offers . |
| 23 | It seems a fair bet that Joe Public finds it as hard to feel sorry for rodents as Winston Smith did , and though these lobotomised specimens were of the cuter white kind , it was possibly to watch this sequence without feeling many qualms . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I 've found it very hard to relax because of the pressures . |
| 25 | He has been ill recently and has found it very hard to cope with his children . |
| 26 | ‘ It is n't every man who approves of women having ambition , ’ Ashley remarked a touch cryptically — for when she had been made a director several of her male colleagues had found it very hard to handle . |
| 27 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 28 | Many people at midlife find it incredibly hard to get time to sit down , let alone spend an extra hour in bed . |
| 29 | ‘ It means that when I 'm with you I find it annoyingly hard to think straight . |
| 30 | Middle-sized and smaller organisations find it truly hard to compete . |