Example sentences of "be hard for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times are hard for British business — ask anyone . |
| 2 | The helpful handbook puts it succinctly — ‘ Faxes that are hard for humans to read are hard for FAXgrabber to read ’ . |
| 3 | The helpful handbook puts it succinctly — ‘ Faxes that are hard for humans to read are hard for FAXgrabber to read ’ . |
| 4 | Times are hard for chartered architects who sometimes ask ‘ What does the Institute do for me ? ’ |
| 5 | Times are hard for Alan Soden and his family — he ca n't get a job and his family have to live on state benifits . |
| 6 | It has always been hard for them to translate their music success into a sustained movie career . |
| 7 | It would have been hard for the toughest , most stable and secure character to stand up to being dream symbol to the world . |
| 8 | Roirbak thought , Times have been hard for you girl , have n't they ? |
| 9 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 10 | It would have been hard for an outside eye to have detected anything wrong , although Fritzi 's brother Mickey had provided a clue . |
| 11 | With a blurb like that , it would have been hard for anyone waiting for a British response to the wave of Continental traffic calming not to get excited . |
| 12 | It has been hard for Souness to stamp his authority in a similar way since he took over when Dalglishfatigued by the demands of the Anfield job departed 22 months ago . |
| 13 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 14 | It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled . |
| 15 | ‘ We know the last three years have been hard for you , Shai Tung . |
| 16 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 17 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 18 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 19 | And indeed it will be hard for any future Kiwi tourists to recapture the freshness of football that one associates with that side . |
| 20 | Without the guarantee it would be hard for the Bank to keep its high credit rating ; without that rating , poor borrowers would have to pay more for their Bank loans . |
| 21 | As with many of the epigrams to which England 's most famous economist was prone ( when he was n't prone in his Cambridge bed placing his college 's stockmarket bets ) , it would be hard for a reasonable man to disagree . |
| 22 | Richards made another 88 , Greenidge and Kallicharran got fifties and 246 was clearly going to be hard for England to beat . |
| 23 | Will it be hard for my wife ? ’ |
| 24 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |
| 25 | It may be hard for teachers to combine their professional status with concern for the morals , the welfare , and the ‘ leisure ’ development of their pupils . |
| 26 | In these circumstances it may be hard for other people to believe that the governors ' proceedings can be as fair as they should be . |
| 27 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 28 | It will always be hard for the courts to distinguish between what is harmful and what is merely unpleasant or challenging , but it is a task which society must confront for its own good . |
| 29 | Every couple has to find for themselves where this balance lies and , to be frank , this can be hard for some because one partner 's idea of novelty is the other 's perception of tedium . |
| 30 | This may be hard for western activists to take , but it is our highest purpose : to know God and to enjoy him forever . |