Example sentences of "be hard for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 2 | It would have been hard for an outside eye to have detected anything wrong , although Fritzi 's brother Mickey had provided a clue . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it is hard for an old actor to separate fact from fantasy . |
| 6 | ‘ It is hard for an unqualified and unapprenticed female to find any work in London , except in the East End where , I am reliably informed , there is casual labour aplenty , and unskilled work , too . ’ |
| 7 | It was hard for an English girl to get a secretarial job in New York these days — she had been lucky in getting her work permit before the restrictions were so stringent — but maybe one day the conditions would change and there would be more work permits available . |