Example sentences of "be hard for " in BNC.

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31 Kitchen curtains which need to be washed fairly frequently can often be hard for an elderly person to reach to take down and to re-hang ; so one of the easily wiped vinyl-coated roller blinds is an excellent idea .
32 After 20 years working in the Social Work Department it will be hard for Jack to leave a job that has been often exhausting and demanding , but never short of interest and challenge and which he has really enjoyed doing .
33 It will be hard for us to be away from Andrew and Peter over Christmas and New Year but the boys have been really encouraging , telling us to go for all God has for us .
34 Furthermore , because of the uncompromising nature of the posthumously-published works , it will probably always be hard for most readers to understand them except after reading The Lord of the Rings .
35 None-the-less the hot pot did much to boost the prestige of Halfling regiments and taught the Goblins a lesson it would be hard for them to forget .
36 It would be hard for him to sell Newmont shares quickly .
37 It may also be hard for an NT user to communicate .
38 I know it must be hard for anyone to accept a set of equations without going through the usual routine of presenting the relevant experimental justifications .
39 I just thought it 'd be hard for you .
40 ‘ Poor Mr Boldwood , the news will be hard for him , ’ said Jan Coggan .
41 He said it would be hard for a time . ’
42 It will be hard for us to pretend friendship . ’
43 In many cases , it will be hard for the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is lying .
44 A decision that is easy for one group may be hard for another — not just because of different circumstances but because of different motivations .
45 Life is not easy for any of us , and despite what people think can be hard for those of us who have the luck to be well endowed with this world 's goods .
46 Indeed , it would be hard for them to do so , because British American Tobacco does not sell tobacco in the United Kingdom .
47 " It must be hard for him . "
48 Rejecting the value of his past ministry would be hard for the bishop .
49 Some of the articles were hard for the layman to follow and quite hard for some clergymen to follow .
50 ‘ Times were hard for many people .
51 The first days back were hard for Sarah .
52 Then he added that times were hard for small farmers and told me not to be in a hurry to send in the account . ’
53 It is hard for those wanting to make a fresh start , maintain good health and stay off drugs .
54 Of course the Lloyds building is hard for many people to swallow .
55 ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’
56 It is hard for those who live near a police Station ,
57 It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’
58 In open , borderless capital markets , it is hard for borrowing costs to diverge very far .
59 It is hard for black youngsters , growing up in poor areas where few people have jobs , to see that ‘ making it ’ requires hard work and discipline .
60 There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher .
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