Example sentences of "hard [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very hard to invest reality into people running around with clubs making funny noises . |
| 2 | It is hard to carry on our pleasant banter in the face of Calvin 's unexplained hostility . |
| 3 | This short passage makes crystal-clear the role of the aristocracy in Carolingian politics , and explains why Charles now and later worked so hard to carry his followers with him . |
| 4 | In view of the vastness of Russia and the striking parochialism of the localities , it must have been hard to whip up yet more sympathy and funds for remote peasants in the Lower Volga . |
| 5 | As John Tutchin was later to ask , " Did our Fore-Fathers struggle so hard to curb the Ambition of their Kings who Invaded their Birth-Rights " , only for us to be " Oppress 'd by that very Power with which our Ancestors Defended their Liberties ? " |
| 6 | Many who professed to revere the principle found it hard to like the example they were faced with in Mr Rushdie 's case : the book unreadable and the writer a pain in the neck . |
| 7 | May we try to avoid being cruel and unkind even with those people we find it really hard to like . |
| 8 | If you if you do n't understand things it gets very hard to like them cos you d just do n't know what 's going on do you ? |
| 9 | It was hard to sound more than fairly enthusiastic . |
| 10 | In theoretical terms , too , it is hard to object because , of course , everybody has their own detailed definition of what it might contain . |
| 11 | Almost inevitably there are entries where others will find it hard to agree with his conclusions , and on a number of occasions he leaves the questions of date and attribution open . |
| 12 | One looked at the team and found it desperately hard to agree . |
| 13 | Some SSDs would find it hard to agree . |
| 14 | It 's hard to fall anywhere but on your face when the snow is reaching your thigh , and you know it wo n't hurt . |
| 15 | None describes him/her self as such in the party 's official literature — that would be inviting disaster at the ballot box — but they are not hard to spot . |
| 16 | When the draft statutes were submitted to the European Council , The Economist , in an article entitled ‘ Karl-Otto Bismarck , wrote : ‘ Mr Pöhl 's influence over the 46 pages of detailed rules is not hard to spot . ’ |
| 17 | Usually it is not too hard to spot the person by his broad welcoming smile or the eager , slightly nervous way he scans the arriving passengers . |
| 18 | So we 're more than looking forward to reviewing this one , although before we examine it in detail perhaps we should take a quick look at Lowden 's model-numbering system , since with so many different options available , like cutaways , special inlays , different bindings and decoration , it 's sometimes hard to spot which model is which . |
| 19 | This guitar has a two-piece alder body with the join well off-centre , but because alder is such a plain-looking wood , the join is hard to spot — something the Manson shares with most Fenders . |
| 20 | Why do they think trains are so hard to spot in the first place ? |
| 21 | It is very difficult to design a pressed flower picture on to a background material that has already been printed with a design , and if you were to use a floral fabric it might be hard to spot where your picture stops and the print begins . |
| 22 | In flight the wedge-shaped tail of the rook is supposed to help identification , but it 's hard to spot as the bird is constantly moving its tail . |
| 23 | Viewed head-on from short range the animal is exceedingly hard to spot , provided it stands still . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The lunch trade had mostly disappeared so he was n't hard to spot . |
| 26 | Individually they are hard to spot , they sort of melt into the crowd . |
| 27 | When newspaper owners ran into hard times in the 1960s , and tried to save money by introducing new printing technologies , the printers fought long and hard to preserve their jobs and status . |
| 28 | Bill has worked very hard to preserve Glasgow 's position |
| 29 | Though it is an everyday part of human diet in the region , its skin , being hard to preserve , has seldom been shipped to museums ; scientists have tended to ignore the animal , making it one of the most poorly studied common species in the world . |
| 30 | They are both on low incomes and find it very hard to cope with all the additional expenses of Gail 's illness . |