Example sentences of "[vb -s] it hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes my hand and squeezes it hard . |
| 2 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 3 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 4 | Second , the British way of doing things makes it hard for a company to discover the identity of a suspected concert party-goer hiding behind a nominee . |
| 5 | The fact that you 're dealing with abstracts makes it hard . |
| 6 | FOLLOWING an elderly taxi in London or heavy truck up a country hill , both spewing clouds of acrid smoke , makes it hard to believe that diesel exhausts can be no more harmful than those from a petrol engine that has been fitted with a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 7 | Other theories on the origin or evolution of syphilis and the other diseases caused by similar organisms suggest that different populations have their own endemic treponemal disease , be it yaws , pinta , or syphilis , the presence of which makes it hard for one of the others to establish itself . |
| 8 | Many interviewers , however , work for more than one company , which makes it hard for any individual company to implement standards different from the rest . |
| 9 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 10 | The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find . |
| 11 | Success makes it hard for them to keep their heads straight . ’ |
| 12 | This makes it hard to assess the dangers of particular products |
| 13 | Norman Makes It Hard For Himself |
| 14 | Such commitments makes it hard for them to really get stuck into each and every league match . |
| 15 | Soldiering on with lower back pain makes it hard not to be preoccupied . |
| 16 | First , a confusing jumble of federal and state laws makes it hard for most banks to sell insurance , and almost impossible to underwrite it . |
| 17 | This makes it hard to use the information it provides constructively . |
| 18 | The formulation of restraints upon State activities through the adoption ( often by consensus ) of Resolutions and Codes of Conduct within international organisations makes it hard for a State to claim non-party status , as it can to a treaty it has not ratified . |
| 19 | He also makes it hard to look at conventional portraits without smiling . |
| 20 | All this makes it hard to see why Mycenaean Corinth was of no consequence ; the answer is probably just that , unlike Attica and the Argolid , it lay off the main routes of Mycenaean penetration . |
| 21 | ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . ) |
| 22 | The evolution of sculpture through the sixth century , however , makes it hard to date the figures we are now considering before 600 and they might be well after . |
| 23 | This makes it hard to see why a 20 per cent rule has much appeal , and a more attractive rule might ensure that the activities of participants do not overlap by more than some specific amount . |
| 24 | It is thought that the government will follow the Iraqi cause , but the country depends on US and French aid to an extent which makes it hard to believe that the government will take any action to prejudice its continuance . |
| 25 | These are called lunar transient events and their very transience makes it hard to determine whether all of them are illusory . |
| 26 | Such chemical shifts can clearly give useful information about the oxidation state of an element in a sample , though the small shift range makes it hard to define non-overlapping regions characteristic of each oxidation state . |
| 27 | Insisting that detailed historical evidence makes it hard to categorise and structure a developed narrative to specific events , this revisionist historical practice refuses to determine anything beyond what ‘ the evidence ’ precisely articulates . |
| 28 | This inevitably makes it hard for us to become accustomed to making the distinction explicitly . |
| 29 | This makes it hard to claim categorically that there are no characteristically " black " features which might identify speakers as ethnic Caribbeans . |
| 30 | whereas a psychological dependency is what 's really you know , difficult and what makes it hard for people to come off drugs . |