Example sentences of "hard for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cuba provides a graphic confirmation of the received wisdom that it is very hard for an under-developed country to proceed to the construction of socialism without first achieving economic independence . |
| 2 | It would have been hard for an outside eye to have detected anything wrong , although Fritzi 's brother Mickey had provided a clue . |
| 3 | Kitchen curtains which need to be washed fairly frequently can often be hard for an elderly person to reach to take down and to re-hang ; so one of the easily wiped vinyl-coated roller blinds is an excellent idea . |
| 4 | Non-tidal and desperately steep , they 'll be too hard for an old fart like me ; but round the corner is a huge , blocky , roofed sweep of rock on which I 'd reckon to stand a chance . |
| 5 | But it is hard for an old actor to separate fact from fantasy . |
| 6 | It was hard for an English girl to get a secretarial job in New York these days — she had been lucky in getting her work permit before the restrictions were so stringent — but maybe one day the conditions would change and there would be more work permits available . |
| 7 | That is harder for an American president to do than most who suggest it realise ; whether they start in Waco or in Warsaw , the crises of the world sooner or later force their way onto the president 's desk . |