Example sentences of "[be] hard [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 2 | They 're harder to see than a high-speed mouse . |
| 3 | Such changes are hard to describe and this is not the place to discuss them . |
| 4 | In educational measurement bias and reactivity are hard to estimate but rarely negligible . |
| 5 | A simple mis-keying of a complex formula can produce errors that are hard to spot but which subtly change the balance and so disrupt the model 's accuracy . |
| 6 | Cultural associations are hard to suppress and continue to influence centuries later . |
| 7 | Official figures are hard to credit as families fail to claim benefit . |
| 8 | Official figures are hard to credit as families fail to claim benefit . |
| 9 | Official figures are hard to credit as families fail to claim benefit . |
| 10 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 11 | In descent rock features may look quite different , distances are hard to judge and much of the terrain is hidden from view by intervening convexities . |
| 12 | However , convictions for rape are hard to obtain and defendants very often plead not guilty when charged , so that the symbolic advantages of such a change might be achieved at the expense of even fewer convictions for the conduct concerned . |
| 13 | Comparisons are hard to make because of the unreliability of the numbers recorded prior to the introduction of charges . |
| 14 | These claims , however , are hard to substantiate because the systems for operating the market are not fully in place . |
| 15 | ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment . |
| 16 | The memory of fire and plague , of slaughter , gaping earth and venomous snakes , and the great Moses barred from God 's land for reasons that are hard to discern and even harder to call sufficient , still haunts our minds , and the stink of those quails will not leave our nostrils . |
| 17 | Many argue that pensions represent a social contract between each generation and its children , whose terms are hard to alter except over many years . |
| 18 | They will not be struggling with defective sight in a confused environment in which they are using materials that are hard to decipher and presented without sufficient clarity . |
| 19 | Reliable comparative statistics are hard to find but the European Commission has published some figures showing the relative purchasing power of pensions in each of the member states . |
| 20 | Authentic examples are hard to find because fronted predicators are very rare in English . |
| 21 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
| 22 | As images are hard to shake and difficult to change , you have a proper public relations job on your hands . |
| 23 | It may be an idea to check out any varieties that you fancy in a reputable book — some are hard to grow and need lots of light ; other plants are still being sold that are really bog plants and should not be grown submerged . |
| 24 | There are many crimes which are hard to prove but they remain nonetheless crimes . |
| 25 | Advanced root etching is shown in Fig. 1.11A , where the root marks are so extensive and overlapping that the individual marks are hard to distinguish and the whole bone appears to have been chemically corroded ( which of course it has ) . |
| 26 | Cook believed that there might be evidence for a ‘ young Earth ’ in the fundamentalist sense of literal biblical interpretation , due to the presence of helium-3 in the atmosphere in quantities whose origins are hard to understand unless they are from fusion . |
| 27 | Pensions are hard to understand and surrounded by impenetrable jargon . |
| 28 | Because shoe laces are hard to tie but easy to trip over . |
| 29 | It had not been hard to predict that the Caribbean style of attacking play would be greatly suited to one-day cricket . |
| 30 | The electrician , from Bishop Auckland , County Durham , has been hard to beat since he burst onto the racing scene in 1989 . |