Example sentences of "would be hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just thought it 'd be hard for you . |
| 2 | It 's a shame because I mean it I think what they 've got is really you know , er er er they 'd be hard put to it to get anything as good really at the price I think . |
| 3 | She 'd be hard to get . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be hard not to be . |
| 5 | C'm on , secretly just between you and me the voice persisted in her head , it would be hard not to . |
| 6 | But it would be hard to argue , say , that Greeks are less moral because of the appalling corruption of and greed demonstrated by senior figures in the government and party of the socialist Andreas Papandreou . |
| 7 | There is nothing wrong with that — in fact , without such precautions it would be hard to get a coherent programme together at all . |
| 8 | A more eloquent statement of unrealism would be hard to devise , writes Edward Steen . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be hard on people like Peter Winterbottom but they have taken a decision to go to London and there 's no room any more for sentiment . ’ |
| 10 | It would be hard , though , to call Lawson a strict monetarist either . |
| 11 | Few would have dared to predict in the late 1960s that duvets would ever catch on in this country , but today it would be hard to find a British household that does n't have one . |
| 12 | It would be hard to improve on his observations today : |
| 13 | The boozy gabble of the offenders was suddenly silenced , although whether it was the tone of Frau Nordern 's voice or the word ‘ ministry ’ which stilled it , it would be hard to say . |
| 14 | It would be hard to give a satisfactory explanation if he were found in that part of the house so late at night . |
| 15 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 16 | Inside , a more civilized and settled atmosphere would be hard to find . |
| 17 | IT WOULD be hard to find a more idyllic setting than that of Iford Manor in its secret valley beside the River Frome , with one bank in Wiltshire and the other in Somerset . |
| 18 | Even if there were a willingness to reduce production , it would be hard , in the European Community , to resist the sheer momentum created by opening the frontiers of the new internal market after 1992 . |
| 19 | Getting agreement to all of this among five powers would be hard enough . |
| 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 | In practice , that distinction would be hard to define . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Every subject I could think of could be painful to her and in any case would be hard to sustain as a monologue . |
| 24 | She was an intellectual and an eccentric , and anyone less like the poetic image of a milkmaid it would be hard to find . |
| 25 | It would be hard to overstate the contempt with which the lower-middle class were viewed . |
| 26 | She is a lovely person , it would be hard to feel jealous of her , but I do feel a little envious if I stop to think about it . |
| 27 | ‘ It was so easy going out of America , I never realised it would be hard to get in ! |
| 28 | It would be hard to bear and she dreaded such a letter because it might disturb her wonderful composure . |
| 29 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 30 | In this case , it would be hard to find language indicating more clearly that Mr Clayton intended the land to be preserved and managed as playing fields for all time , or at least for as long as the law permitted . |