Example sentences of "is hard [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present climate it is hard to see the function of strikes except in public-sector monopolies . |
| 2 | The point is that it is hard to see the subject-matter under attack as determinations which are so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could come to them , at least not when viewed as Lord Greene M.R. visualised the notion . |
| 3 | It is hard to see the difference between Lord Keith 's arguments and those of the ECJ in Dekker . |
| 4 | Since each local authority knows the law and CIPFA 's recommendations , it is hard to see the Code 's purpose . |
| 5 | And it is hard to ignore the significance of Smith 's Crisps , whose many non-meat flavours must have appealed to the young Morrissey . |
| 6 | Given that consistent pattern , it is hard to resist the idea that there is some basic mechanism that lays down first one element , then two , and then three , and so on . |
| 7 | British realism is distinctive not in being realistic but in being exportable , embarrassment and all ; and it is hard to resist the conclusion that the world buys it , including the American and Soviet worlds , because it is curious about what it is to be British . |
| 8 | It is hard to resist the conclusion that this new attitude was the result of the company in which the exiles had found themselves from 1097 to 1100 . |
| 9 | It is hard to resist the conclusion that the distinction between a representative and a delegate , although real enough , is posed in misleading terms . |
| 10 | Few managers , at any level of making decisions about budgets , training programmes or school organization , could ignore Clare Burstall 's final word in her report of 1974 : " Now that the results of the evaluation are finally available … it is hard to resist the conclusion that the weight of evidence has combined with the balance of opinion to tip the scales against a possible expansion of the teaching of French in primary schools " ( p. 246 ) . |
| 11 | If the normal and primary way of justifying the legitimacy of an authority is that it is more likely to act successfully on the reasons which apply to its subjects then it is hard to resist the dependence thesis . |
| 12 | All the same it is hard to resist the temptation to describe United 's style as Wimbledon Mk II . |
| 13 | It is hard to resist the pressure to use them , especially as some nuclear-power generators have tied themselves into long-term reprocessing contracts . |
| 14 | It is hard to describe the feeling I had as I persuaded her scaly old feet on to my finger and gave her a dose of my very own medicine . |
| 15 | It is hard to disregard the problem in light of the 1992 OPCS national research findings that up to 400,000 elderly people may be suffering from this type of abuse , and the stress in the community care legislation on maintaining elderly people in their own homes . |
| 16 | It is hard to assess the IQ of young children . |
| 17 | As we have seen , it is hard to draw the line between a conscious human being and a conscious machine likewise , we have to accept that any entity possessed of consciousness is in reality a living organism — whatever its physical characteristics . |
| 18 | It is hard to view the Home Unions XV as other than Lions when McGeechan and Roger Uttley are the coaches and Clive Rowlands the manager — the managerial troika Down Under , back in harness . |
| 19 | Whatever the meaning for those twelve disciples on that short mission ( and the Spirit may well have come upon them temporarily as he did upon the Old Testament of God to equip them for a special purpose ) , it is hard to mistake the shadow this event casts towards the time of the Church , when men sent out by Jesus ( ‘ sent one' is the root meaning of the word ‘ apostle ’ ) would be equipped by the Spirit given them by Jesus , for carrying out Jesus ' own mission in the world . |
| 20 | At this stage it is hard to analyse the effectiveness of the new legislation , both in terms of punishing unscrupulous landlords and in discouraging others who might seek to utilise " extra-legal " means for the removal of their tenants . |
| 21 | So far the Finance Ministry has done a good job by letting off steam in a controlled and orderly way , but it is hard to stop the process of deflation once it has gained momentum . |
| 22 | Yet standing in its austere reception hall , leading off to early Romano-British antiquities in one direction and library halls in the other , it is hard to deny the scope for a more populist approach . |
| 23 | But , love or loathe the frocks , it is hard to deny the potential . |
| 24 | In retrospect it is hard to judge the extent to which the success of this policy ( and , for all the worries it caused at the time , it was a success by comparison with the economy management disasters of the 1960s and 1970s ) was due to good management , and the extent to which it was due to external and internal economic factors outside government control , in particular to the postwar recovery and the stimulus provided by the continuing military activity of the ‘ cold war ’ . |
| 25 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |
| 26 | It is hard to judge the extent of the industry , but later developments , particularly in the sixteenth century , seem to have been firmly based on medieval foundations . |
| 27 | It is hard to define the influence this has , but most children do not have the means to develop a critical faculty . |
| 28 | It is hard to argue the point since no broad surveys have been carried out in Bangkok , but what is known offers little ground for hope . |
| 29 | During the hours spent in school , it is hard to estimate the extent to which the number and nature of the interactions experienced by any one child are directly concerned with formal teaching and learning . |
| 30 | It is hard to estimate the effect of Parliament on the other sectors of British government , though its role is best understood by regarding it not primarily as a check on the executive but as one of the institutions through which the government operates . |