Example sentences of "[adv] hard [to-vb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 2 | Given that these viewpoints and value bases are so antagonistic , and yet rarely made explicit , it is not surprising that different groups find it so hard to trust and respect each other . |
| 3 | The snag is that it 's very difficult to get started , impossibly hard to master and the demands made on your system are astronomical — running Painter on a 50MHz 486 can still be painfully slow . |
| 4 | Whichever side of the fence personal injury lawyers are on , it is now much harder to court and land personal injury work , and to make a profit out of it . |
| 5 | In the last two months , our budgeted sales of cattle feed have been much harder to achieve but these are conditions under which we are used to operating . |
| 6 | ‘ This is much harder to handle but I know what is required because I have been here before . ’ |
| 7 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 8 | Pam 's voice still urged him onward , encouraging him , but as he struggled upwards towards it , the darkness was closing in thickly around him , making it progressively harder to see or breathe . |
| 9 | A fair city , something dishevelled after uneasy times , and hampered and straitened now -by the loss of the thriving Welsh trade which was half its life , but still capable of living on its own fat for some while yet , and still hard to take and invaluable to hold . |
| 10 | It 'll be specially hard to concentrate or focus your thoughts today . |
| 11 | It 'll be specially hard to concentrate or focus your thoughts today . |
| 12 | Pontypridd are always hard to beat and there will be one player on their side with something to prove — Neil Jenkins . |
| 13 | The danger is that in the ensuing artificial competition it may not be possible to establish some markets at all , and traders would then be forced to use less efficient over-the-counter markets , which are conceivably harder to regulate and thus more prone to fraud . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They are also hard to share and communicate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first two of these elements are fairly uncontroversial but the third element , effectiveness , is both hard to define and difficult to measure . |
| 18 | The first two of these elements are fairly uncontroversial but the third element , effectiveness , is both hard to define and difficult to measure . |
| 19 | The Vauxhall ( remember it 's actually an Opel ) suffers from ugly digital gauges that are often hard to interpret and a digital speedometer that only reads in even numbers . |
| 20 | Natural parents find it just as hard to understand and meet the needs of their adolescent children . |
| 21 | Genuine old rocking horses of real quality are increasingly hard to find and are likely to be very expensive , as are the products of some of the very fine contemporary rocking horse makers who work in various parts of the country . |
| 22 | it 's even harder to try and get by on your pay packet and to get all the Christmas presents . |
| 23 | He looked , too , as though he might be quite hard to surprise or impress . |
| 24 | I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses |
| 25 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 26 | It is sometimes hard to get but it is there . |
| 27 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | Despite sometimes experiencing frustration at the slow progress towards Christian Unity , he said , we should try very hard to understand and overcome the difficulties congregations of different faiths have in getting to know each other and working together . |
| 29 | Erm , the trouble is , if you do n't know the vocabulary it 's very hard to dictate and write down because you have to keep stopping and asking them to spell things . |
| 30 | Whereas he normally came in from playing with threads hanging from his sweaters , this one proved very hard to catch and pull . |