Example sentences of "[v-ing] it hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the lethargic effects of dope ( incl. grass ) can de-motivate young people , making it harder for them to get bored with doing nothing . |
| 2 | Thus his conduct very well illustrates the maxim ‘ Look before you leap ’ ; and if his final decision was made when the trend of circumstances was making it harder to leave home , he might well have recalled ‘ He who hesitates is lost ’ . |
| 3 | Tim in particular will have to learn how to lower his centre of gravity by spreading his legs , making it harder for people to knock him over . |
| 4 | It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume . |
| 5 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 6 | Such constraints mean that Virgin 1215 can succeed , cutting into Radio One 's audience — and , ironically , making it harder to use its popularity to justify its subsidy . |
| 7 | The army sealed the border with Pakistan , making it harder for terrorists to buy weapons and seek sanctuary . |
| 8 | SMCC is allegedly telling customers SunSoft products can only be run on Sun hardware , making it harder for Sparcettes to snare the upgrade business . |
| 9 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 10 | We suspect , Janet , that you started washing from the top and that as you worked down , any drips streaked the dry , dirty wall below , making it harder to clean . |
| 11 | A firm which innocently seeks to lower costs and improve product quality may simultaneously be making it harder for entry to occur . |
| 12 | But by being ashamed of who they are , they 're making it harder for other people to accept them . ’ |
| 13 | Life is hard enough without computers making it harder . |
| 14 | In Chapter 10 we saw that existing oligopolists would have an incentive to advertise too much , not because advertising provides additional consumer information about the product , but because it raises the fixed cost of being in the industry , thereby making it harder for new firms to enter the industry . |
| 15 | Making it harder for killer gangs |
| 16 | His move to the Isle of Wight was part of a campaign of harassment , making it harder for him to receive visitors , and he is constantly being threatened with placement in the psychiatric wing of the prison . |
| 17 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 18 | One year later there was some indication that the control sample carers were finding it harder than the action sample to talk in terms of a simple preference for home care . |
| 19 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 20 | ‘ But I 'm finding it harder and harder . ’ |
| 21 | She was finding it harder and harder to keep up with her mother 's thoughts . |
| 22 | On a more pragmatic , but related , issue , students were finding it harder to ‘ pass ’ inference skills IN 1–3 , than IN 4–6 , and since this had important implications for their grading , I was attempting to remediate the early skills on an ad hoc basis with some non-subject-specific pencil and paper exercises . |
| 23 | Everyone filed out , pushing a little , finding it hard to maintain their Sunday solemnity . |
| 24 | Olive was n't going to admit it but she was finding it hard to identify with the Moroccans . |
| 25 | The new Conservative leader Mrs Thatcher , was finding it hard to assert herself , especially with a Shadow Cabinet consisting largely of followers of the defeated Edward Heath . |
| 26 | Steve was doing OK but he was finding it hard to play guitar at the same time as singing . |
| 27 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
| 28 | This would raise a wry smile from the Dutch manager , Thijs Libregts , who is finding it hard to discover a matching pair . |
| 29 | Small wonder that only four months after the Berlin Wall came down East German satirists are finding it hard not to be outdone by reality . |
| 30 | She 's a little preoccupied at the moment , just an ordinary person finding it hard to deal with the madness that selling vast amounts of records brings . |