Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [adv] hard [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carole she 's normally very interesting but she was very hard to hear . |
| 2 | These are similar to light waves , which are ripples of the electromagnetic field , but they are much harder to detect . |
| 3 | Ideas and institutions were just as much a part of the ‘ given ’ facts of European society between 1880 and 1914 as were geography , or political and economic structure , but they are much harder to measure . |
| 4 | One can certainly understand a company in dire financial straits seeking cost cutting , but it is very hard to explain why the Banks should be embarking on this trend now . |
| 5 | But it is still hard to beat the experienced eye , which can automatically focus its attention on the most significant features of a spectrum . |
| 6 | The heat was appalling and I was n't sorry , but it is always hard to turn back . |
| 7 | This may sound obvious , but it is extremely hard to remember . |
| 8 | Influencing chief executives : The chairman or chief executive is often an enthusiast for the latest management thinking , but it 's generally hard to find direct links with the way they run their companies . |
| 9 | I think that the Quad X-Amp is an amazing piece of gear , but it 's unbelievably hard to sum up — one of the main reasons being the lack of any acceptable criteria for doing so . |
| 10 | I suppose she 's old enough and that , but it 's still hard to believe . |
| 11 | Been getting hold of a bit of meth , but it 's fairly hard to come by at the moment . |
| 12 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 13 | The great problem for any navigator was to know where his ship was : it was relatively easy to determine the latitude , which measures distance north or south of the equator , but it was much harder to find the longitude , or distance east or west of a fixed meridian — a line from pole to pole running through all the points at which the sun is at its highest at the same moment . |
| 14 | A health-cure , they held , may be healthy for a time , but it was always hard to imagine any of them , at any time , with a copy of Joyce 's Finnegans Wake ( 1939 ) in hand . |
| 15 | ‘ But it was really hard to deal with sometimes , especially when I got the thumbs down on something I really believed in and did n't want to change . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes … but it was so hard to do , Shai Tung . |
| 17 | Regina was eventually moved and found work — but it was still hard to communicate with her : |
| 18 | I was redundant and signed on , but it was still hard to make ends meet . |
| 19 | Aesthetically , he was in love , but it was still hard to think that eventually this sculpture of flesh and bone must become his soul 's vehicle , his robot . |