Example sentences of "it is hard for " in BNC.

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1 It is hardest for your year because you 've known other people to have erm
2 A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down .
3 On the other hand , it is certainly true that it is harder for specialist literature in German to be accepted .
4 In specialist chambers ( such as taxation , family law , employment law , company law , local government law , town and country planning , rating , commercial law , shipping , restrictive practices , libel law , and patent ) , it is harder for the beginner to get a start and less likely that the incompetent can make headway .
5 The Boro boss added : ‘ Forwards are at the sharp end , especially away from home , where it is harder for them .
6 It is hard for those wanting to make a fresh start , maintain good health and stay off drugs .
7 ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’
8 It is hard for those who live near a police Station ,
9 It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’
10 In open , borderless capital markets , it is hard for borrowing costs to diverge very far .
11 It is hard for black youngsters , growing up in poor areas where few people have jobs , to see that ‘ making it ’ requires hard work and discipline .
12 There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher .
13 It is hard for them to find the relevance to their lives of the words that are being used .
14 It is hard for us to communicate back to a horse with body language , but we can simulate some of the horse 's actions .
15 They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect .
16 Richard Baxter observed the truth of our Lord 's teaching that it is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven , but the poor received the Gospel gladly .
17 But it is hard for an old actor to separate fact from fantasy .
18 For though it is hard for us to credit it now , many people believed that if you travelled faster than — say — 30 miles an hour , you might actually burst and be scattered across the railway lines .
19 The bedroom doors of Darlington Hall are of a certain thickness and I could by no means hear complete exchanges ; consequently , it is hard for me now to recall precisely what I overheard , just as , indeed , it was for me later that same evening when I reported to his lordship on the matter .
20 It is hard for many biologists e en to see that there is a question here at all .
21 The curvy pattern in figure 11.11 was very clear , but sometimes , when the relationship is not so strong , it is hard for the eye to tell if a transformation is required .
22 It is hard for science to verify such an idea as it is beyond its scope to understand certain aspects of the unborn personality .
23 It is hard for some owners to accept that this noise means ‘ I am inoffensive ’ rather than ‘ I am content ’ , but the fact is that inoffensiveness is the only condition to explain all the different contexts in which the purr occurs .
24 Typically such questions begin with , ‘ What would you do if … ’ , and then create a hypothetical situation which it is hard for the candidate to imagine .
25 With no experience of being accepted for who and what they were and are , it is hard for them in their turn to accept the other for what he or she is , or is becoming .
26 It is hard for them not to believe , for they slip in and out of belief caressed by the changing breezes of cultural fashion .
27 It is hard for parishes to know what exactly they can do for the unemployed .
28 This is of particular importance in an industry in which it is hard for new entrants to establish themselves , in view of the high costs of entry into the market .
29 It is hard for you too .
30 The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own .
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