Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] hard [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society believes that good freelance editors and proofreaders are becoming increasingly hard to find because the pool from which they are drawn — editors leaving full-time employment — is drying up as a result of a lack of inhouse training and the general reduction in numbers . |
| 2 | I did n't fully understand everything I read , and although the apparent text of my behaviour was , ‘ Look at me — how learned and knowledgeable I am ’ , the sub-text was something more like , ‘ I 'm trying frantically hard to learn and to understand , despite my stupidity . |
| 3 | As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years . |
| 4 | He 's trying too hard to please and it 's not a nice sight . |
| 5 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |