Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 2 | Gutenberg tried to mimic the gothic calligraphy of his own time when he invented modern printing , because anything else would have been hard to read . |
| 3 | It would have been hard for the toughest , most stable and secure character to stand up to being dream symbol to the world . |
| 4 | It would have been hard to sit there smouldering with scorn while all around children were bouncing about delivering their verdict of unrestrained approval . |
| 5 | Massimo combined staggering conceit , total ineptitude and a winsome , self-ingratiating charm which would have been hard to take in a toddler , never mind a beefy twenty-year-old . |
| 6 | With Harwich and the docks at Parkeston Quay not more than two miles away , and a direct rail line to London , it would have been hard to think of anywhere more convenient for the RCM to set up a distribution centre . |
| 7 | It would have been hard for an outside eye to have detected anything wrong , although Fritzi 's brother Mickey had provided a clue . |
| 8 | With a blurb like that , it would have been hard for anyone waiting for a British response to the wave of Continental traffic calming not to get excited . |
| 9 | They seemed to agree that £275,000 spread over four years would have been hard to ignore . |
| 10 | Burton may well have been stained by those prejudices — it would have been hard not to be : and once again it is important to understand the circumstances in which he found himself . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was as well for the peace of mind of the Somerset-based players in the Olympic team that details of the County Championship would have been hard to come by in Paris . |
| 12 | It would have been hard at that point not to be ejected from the train . |
| 13 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 14 | They were dressed in the uniform of reserve corps volunteers , and though only one of the two wore it legitimately , it would have been hard to tell which . |
| 15 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 16 | Were they touching one another ? she wondered , and then thought bitchily that physical contact would have been hard to avoid , they were sitting so close to one another . |
| 17 | ‘ When I last saw Heather , anybody less in need of psychiatric treatment it would have been hard to imagine . |
| 18 | The idea of the futile brave attempt to soften the life up here — for it would have been hard and isolated when the house was built and savage in the winter — trying to set a garden on this soil , in this salt air , appealed to her . |
| 19 | If it had n't been for the capricious whim of her younger sister she would have been hard at work in London at this moment . |
| 20 | This is only her second film — her first , Rue Cases Nègres , was a stunning portrait of life in the sugar plantations of her native Martinique ( and would have been hard to beat as NI 's Film of the Year for 1983 if we 'd chosen one then ) . |
| 21 | Indeed , in its evidence to the Kilbrandon commisson , my party accepted that if its then proposals had been accepted by the commission , the case for a reduction in Scottish Members to , say , 58 or 59 would have been hard to resist . |
| 22 | Even in better light , it would have been hard to make sense of the look on the stranger 's face , torn between agitation and disgust . |
| 23 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 24 | From this viewpoint , we are reminded that the complexity and clear definition of designs such as those of Woodchester , Barton and Stonesfield , would have been hard to maintain without the use of some kind of illustration . |
| 25 | The class were able to use a new information source ; to locate and extract information from that source ; use Mailbox to send for further information ; see tangible results from their Mailbox request ; and obtained up-to-date and vivid information which would have been hard to get from another source . |