Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] hard [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are quite hard to read . |
| 2 | When I 'm working , I 'm very hard to live with . |
| 3 | There are also some important questions here , which are very hard to resolve , about the way to link together professional autonomy in dealing with an individual relationship with a clients and a policy-based concern ( or ‘ public concern ’ ) about the way in which professionals allocate their services as a whole . |
| 4 | By their very nature meetings with doctors , lawyers , bank managers and similar professionals can relate to very personal matters , problems which are sometimes hard to face up to . |
| 5 | I 'd left a couple of rings on which were really hard to get off . |
| 6 | If all this excitement drains you and you feel the need for a caffeine boost try the marble interior of Bewley 's coffee house on Grafton St. For something more wholesome , try Colony 's just down the road , where you can find vegetarian food , which is notoriously hard to track down in Dublin . |
| 7 | The worrying thing is my signature , which is extremely hard to counterfeit . |
| 8 | Hence , to an extent which is often hard to gauge accurately , high-sounding ‘ theoretical ’ debates between leading members of the profession are partly arguments between the cultures they were privileged to study . |
| 9 | The two usual options are either a big block , like on the back of a Strat , which is really hard to deal with , or there 's nothing , because they 've sanded it all away . |
| 10 | A further strategic asset was the colossal citadel , the Akrokorinth , which is very hard to take by storm : its most famous capture , by Aratos of Sikyon in the third century , involved treachery . |
| 11 | It is the first sentence which is so hard to compose . |
| 12 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 13 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 14 | For the record , we had caught five other boats , the smallest of which was 65ft long ( 20m ) , and tied underwater knots new even to gulet captains , who are notoriously hard to surprise , being Istanbul bus drivers in their spare time . |
| 15 | ‘ You are so hard to read , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps you 're very hard to please , ’ she said . |
| 17 | In Lace v Chantler the duration of the war could not be predicted and there was no provision for either party to bring the tenancy to an end before the war ended , and that event might itself be very hard to pinpoint . |
| 18 | I always found the idea of people who were very hard to please , including journalists who were very critical — I always found they were almost always right when they found something praiseworthy . |
| 19 | Carole she 's normally very interesting but she was very hard to hear . |
| 20 | She was as hard to crack as a coconut . |
| 21 | We are very hard to rouse . |
| 22 | They are also hard to share and communicate . |
| 23 | Trolls are extremely powerful and because they regenerate damage they are very hard to kill . |
| 24 | They are extremely hard to dispose of . |
| 25 | In some waters they are extremely hard to catch , in others the are ridiculously easy . |
| 26 | I think that it is sensible , even when you send stuff out to subbies , to make sure that you 've got a reasonable plan , especially when you send out to subbies , because they 're very hard to control anyway and you 've got to make sure that you 've not sent unrealistic targets , either too high or too low . |
| 27 | they 're so hard to put in the bin are n't they ? and then forget about them . |
| 28 | The habit of giving in to him was still hard to break , though , even after all the years they had been apart . |
| 29 | It hurt her because the feeling he aroused in her was so hard to analyse . |
| 30 | She wondered would he be as hard to catch as his father had been . |