Example sentences of "[conj] it 's hard [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of those channels where it 's hard to find a bad sound ; everything set on 5 is about right , full-bodied but still jangly , exactly how it should be . |
| 2 | ’ Family commitments , possibly , ’ said Tom , ’ although it 's hard to see how she could fit any in , the hours she works . |
| 3 | HOLIDAY MONEY There are now so many ways holidaymakers can take money abroad that it 's hard to decide which is best |
| 4 | So much has been written about this band , their every move painstakingly analysed , that it 's hard to add any startling insight , any new interpretation to the minutiae of Shaun 's behaviour . |
| 5 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 6 | Wright confessed : ‘ When the ball goes in like that it 's hard to contain yourself . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it makes the document so much more ‘ professional ’ that it 's hard to think of another single step that can such benefits . |
| 8 | There are so many exciting things happening at church these days that it 's hard to keep up with events . |
| 9 | Well er , you ca n't say that it 's hard to understand because I 'm a Londoner and |
| 10 | She 's had 8 quarters , so it 's hard to put down roots . |
| 11 | At harvest time , a lot of families up here visit relatives to help get the crops in , so it 's hard to keep up continuity in the group . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't see the park no more , so it 's hard to tell where I am . |
| 13 | ‘ So it 's hard to tell where the atmosphere ends and the planet itself begins . ’ |
| 14 | None of the old toadies who run these places will accept credit cards , so it 's hard to know how he ran up an Access account of approximately £1200 . |
| 15 | It 's hard to decide what you can do if you do n't know how much money you can get , and it 's hard to decide what something will cost if you have n't a clear idea of what you want to do . |
| 16 | The richness , breadth and detail of this book is astonishing : to read its pages and it 's hard to put down is to be transported to the world of Paris of 1900 and the rough , dirty , vigourous life of Picasso and his cronies . |
| 17 | But let's hope the piana is only an upright : it would be a shame if the child who wants an organ has to go without and it 's hard to see how Santa would manage with a Steinway grand . |
| 18 | Almost identical characters ( played there by William Baldwin and Charlie Sheen ) were central to Backdraft and The Rookie , two of the least impressive films of last year , and it 's hard to see why anyone thought the idea was worth doing even once . |
| 19 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 20 | Currently the Tories hold twenty three seats , Labour seventeen , and twenty two for the Liberal Democrats , and it 's hard to see tomorrow 's vote allowing any party to take the thirty two seats needed for outright control . |
| 21 | The barracking comes from a small minority and it 's hard to take . |
| 22 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 23 | COSE prides itself on its un-organisation : no dues , no structure , no consortium , no budget , and it 's hard to reckon how such a motley crew , left to its own devices , can even begin to expect to defeat Bill Gates , master of the media , without a common war chest and a seriously orchestrated propaganda campaign . |
| 24 | And , and it 's hard to plan around it . |
| 25 | and it 's hard to tip the buggy up when I 've got the heaviest it 's , one in the front , it 's easier with the lightest one let's have your reigns on |
| 26 | But then I do n't hold with the precept de mortuis nil nisi bonum ( I speak as a doctor , after all ) ; and it 's hard to underestimate the irritation when a critic points out something like that to you . |
| 27 | His account of the Italian is sheer joy from beginning to end , and it 's hard to believe that he was almost 87 . |
| 28 | And it 's hard to believe that just four months ago he underwent surgery to have an artificial knee and a steel plate put into his leg . |
| 29 | Down in the corrie , two sparkling blue-green lochans perch beneath the steep cliffs , and it 's hard to imagine that just over the next two gullies , people in golf jumpers are tucking into sticky buns . |
| 30 | There was an obvious theme to the programme that week , but the following show we had Norman Tebbit , John Cleese and Julio Iglesias — and it 's hard to imagine a stranger mixture of people . |