Example sentences of "[vb infin] it hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not necessarily erm a target if you do n't get it hard luck er that 's the end of your s your time with us , it 's just a target that we would like we know that we 're gon na clear all our costs out of that first year . |
| 2 | You can also find it hard to remember things , because germs are multiplying in your brain . |
| 3 | Philosophical reflexivity is not high on the agenda and in an organization which makes much of the concept of loyalty but really means subservience , the insider can find it hard to bite the hand that feeds and reveal any unhealthy aspect in the agenda . |
| 4 | No — the government will find it hard to sustain that again , when there has been no army in the field against them — no pitched battles — no weapons , even . |
| 5 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
| 6 | LWT , whose market share is under attack , may find it hard to maintain the 40 per cent return on capital that would make its share incentive scheme worthwhile to the managers . |
| 7 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 8 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 9 | The Government would find it hard to design a student loan system more socially unjust and more likely to deter potential students from less privileged backgrounds , Sir John Kingman , vice-chancellor of Bristol University , said yesterday . |
| 10 | Even the most committed opponents of capital punishment will find it hard not to see the Norwegians ' point of view . |
| 11 | At the same time , Toyota , Nissan and the others will find it hard to expand if they do not design their cars , and many of the parts contained in them , to meet local tastes and fashions . |
| 12 | With both France and Germany in two minds about how and where Europe should be defended , even remodelled European armies will find it hard to march in step . |
| 13 | But the alliance , if it holds , would reduce Mr Gorbachev 's options in one crucial respect : he would find it hard , if not impossible , to close down the Baltic parliaments without extending the crackdown to Russia itself . |
| 14 | Yours sincerely , ( Prof. ) Richard von Krafft-Ebing girl is obviously fairly intelligent , and so will find it hard to find a man worthy of her among the servant classes ; and how will she meet anyone else ? |
| 15 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 16 | But even if an immediate rise is avoided , the longer terrm effect is more insidious : a Labour Chancellor will find it hard to prevent the markets from widening the interest rate differential with Germany . |
| 17 | So he does sometimes find it hard to throw himself out of bed ? |
| 18 | Training centres are hard-pressed and insufficient in numbers and , with job prospects gloomy for all young people , the now older parents may find it hard to cope with the constant supervision of a young mentally handicapped person who may still exhibit child-like exuberance . |
| 19 | It could therefore be argued that as the districts were neither fully responsible nor fully accountable for the level of poll tax paid by their residents , electors would find it hard to make a judgement on the performance of their own authority based solely on that criterion . |
| 20 | We might find it hard today to agree on a description of the differences between women and men — and perhaps they are less marked than we used to think . |
| 21 | They may find it hard to adapt or compromise , so that others find them too rigid . |
| 22 | And with no funds , the IRB would find it hard to exist . ’ |
| 23 | At his age he would find it hard to get another . ’ |
| 24 | The public may find it hard to stomach for very long the fact that schools in one area should be much better or worse funded than those in neighbouring areas , or that age weightings should vary greatly from one area to another . |
| 25 | You may find it hard , at first , to remember not to tap the ‘ Enter ’ key so frequently , but it is an important habit to get into for later on when you will want to change the format of your documents . |
| 26 | If they have been used to rushing home from work or watching the clock during any stolen time with friends , they may find it hard to adapt to the fact that there is no longer any need to hurry back . |
| 27 | Even then you may find it hard to relax tense muscles as the habits of the muscles are often very ingrained . |
| 28 | They were comfortably beaten by Leicestershire on their Championship debut and will plainly find it hard to bowl sides out , but against that they won four of their first five one-day matches and indicated they could be serious contenders for a trophy . |
| 29 | One would find it hard to imagine two more utterly different aspects of the same country than the southern and northern coasts of Spain . |
| 30 | This is really , really mega-important , because if you get off to a disorganised start then you 'll find it hard to recover . |