Example sentences of "[adv] it [is] hard [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 2 | To see them together now it 's hard to believe that less than six months ago Tanya ’ Pret chen ska ’ from Russia thought of giving up her baby . |
| 3 | Now it 's hard to believe that half a century ago piped water , sewerage and bathrooms complete with toilet and bath were luxuries many did n't have . |
| 4 | Today it is hard to realise that the canal was the late eighteenth-century equivalent to the M1 , which lies five miles away to the east . |
| 5 | There are songs of his where , when you start playing solos , sometimes it 's hard to stop because you get into this … |
| 6 | Having said that , my playing never sinks below a certain standard , although sometimes it 's hard to tell if you 're actually improving , because you 're so close to it . |
| 7 | He had my lord 's entire confidence — indeed it is hard to credit that anyone could change so radically as has my uncle . ’ |
| 8 | Certainly it is hard to believe that bull-leapers grasped the horns , and relied on the tossing movement to get them safely over the bull 's head . |