Example sentences of "it be [adv] hard [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also hard to believe that someone who would use a lap-top computer would forget where he left it . ’ |
| 2 | it 's even harder to try and get by on your pay packet and to get all the Christmas presents . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's really hard to overcome that , to just shake it off and say , ‘ Oh well , they 're just dumb kids , maybe they 'll throw away their Skid Row records and listen to Mudhoney because of us … ’ but that story 's old . |
| 4 | I tend to play with the wah on the treble setting all the time which gives you an incredibly trebly sound and it 's really hard to make that sound good because it distorts and feeds back all the time . |
| 5 | It 's still hard to know whether I 've saved them all , but at least I know I 've done my best . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's very hard to predict because the costs are coming down rapidly , but I ca n't see it being an economic proposition until well into the next century , ’ Shah concludes . |
| 7 | Erm , the trouble is , if you do n't know the vocabulary it 's very hard to dictate and write down because you have to keep stopping and asking them to spell things . |
| 8 | It is also hard to grasp that the main problem in the Highlands and Islands was once the exact opposite of the present one of depopulation . |
| 9 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 10 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 11 | And it is very hard to doubt that , at the time the conversation took place , they were in love . |
| 12 | When you are young and still living within the family it is often hard to acknowledge that you are sexually active and need to take some precautions . |
| 13 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 14 | It is sometimes hard to get but it is there . |
| 15 | It is far harder to argue that it is fair to create an electoral system that will put the centre parties into a governmental position where they will be likely to hold an almost permanent balance of power between Labour and Conservative . |
| 16 | At first it was even hard to tell whether or not she could hear , so unused were her senses . |
| 17 | It was particularly hard to bear when one was a child . |
| 18 | It was desperately hard to accept that this serene man , so calm , so dignified , such a majestic cricketer , could have been taken in this way . |
| 19 | For John , on his endless round of visits to cuttings and embankments , tunnels and bridges , it was sometimes hard to believe that all this buzz of well-organized industry could be brought to a halt by the movement of bits of paper in the far-off City . |
| 20 | Since ownership passed to the legatee without performance having taken place , it was much harder to see that he actually did do with the legacy what the testator had intended . |
| 21 | It was much harder to show that the economy of large estates was superior to that of medium or even small units , especially when most of the labour demands of such units could be met by the virtually unpaid labour of large peasant families . |
| 22 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 23 | Aesthetically , he was in love , but it was still hard to think that eventually this sculpture of flesh and bone must become his soul 's vehicle , his robot . |
| 24 | It was still hard to tell whether he had actually cottoned on to what the name was . |
| 25 | It was still hard to believe that the pod was not going to be destroyed before it reached the ground . |
| 26 | Now he 'd brought the subject up it was very hard to forget that they were a man and woman isolated together miles from anywhere . |