Example sentences of "hard [to-vb] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , he was a designer whose work is hard to excel because of the inspirations he took from natural sources .
2 He said : ‘ I 've found it very hard to relax because of the pressures .
3 It was hard to tell because of the sun glinting on his glasses .
4 Comparisons are hard to make because of the unreliability of the numbers recorded prior to the introduction of charges .
5 Nowhere is the balance between the natural and the contrived so hard to attain as in the making of a ‘ domesticated ’ meadow .
6 Though total equality might be hard to achieve because of the biological differences between the sexes , the legislation has perhaps been rounded of by the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 .
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