Example sentences of "[art] hard way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer . |
| 2 | The article ‘ Snowdon the Hard Way ’ by Jerry Rawson ( June 1991 ) revived many pleasant memories of long days spent over 40 years ago in the mountains of Snowdonia . |
| 3 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 4 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 5 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 6 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 7 | With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week . |
| 8 | The Hard Way |
| 9 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 10 | Anthony was doing things the hard way . |
| 11 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 12 | ‘ They have to learn it all the hard way , ’ sighs a businessman . |
| 13 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 14 | Early on he learned — the hard way — that it was the passport to success . |
| 15 | And in New York , aged 15 , he learnt about money and audiences , the hard way : before he had headlines and arenas , you could catch Kennedy playing violin for small change , on Fifth Avenue . |
| 16 | Not only can you feel smug that you bagged the Ben the hard way , you will also be handsomely rewarded by the views across Loch Linnhe as you descend . |
| 17 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 18 | Each generation of managers , however , seems to end up learning the hard way . |
| 19 | Trevor of Bridgend was 59 last birthday and has learned the hard way that insurance gets harder to acquire the older one gets . |
| 20 | Please do n't wait to find out these harsh facts the hard way . |
| 21 | Now , thanks to hundreds , perhaps thousands of such requests , plus one or two boycotts , producers of cosmetics are learning the hard way that necessity is the mother of invention . |
| 22 | They have to learn the conventions the hard way ; small rewards can ease their path . |
| 23 | ‘ Today I can have a drink like the next man without going over the top , ’ he wrote in his self-confessional biography , ‘ I suppose I have learned my lesson the hard way . ’ |
| 24 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 25 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 26 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 27 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
| 28 | His reputation was earned the hard way . |
| 29 | He had learnt his craft the hard way ; after you had shot an Ibizan beach orgy sequence in a studio in Soho on a cold January morning with a load of complaining bimbos and a gay black man coked out of his brains , any other gig was a breeze . |
| 30 | Like her heroine in Prime Suspect she found success the hard way … |