Example sentences of "and it 's hard [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard to decide what you can do if you do n't know how much money you can get , and it 's hard to decide what something will cost if you have n't a clear idea of what you want to do . |
| 2 | The richness , breadth and detail of this book is astonishing : to read its pages and it 's hard to put down is to be transported to the world of Paris of 1900 and the rough , dirty , vigourous life of Picasso and his cronies . |
| 3 | But let's hope the piana is only an upright : it would be a shame if the child who wants an organ has to go without and it 's hard to see how Santa would manage with a Steinway grand . |
| 4 | Almost identical characters ( played there by William Baldwin and Charlie Sheen ) were central to Backdraft and The Rookie , two of the least impressive films of last year , and it 's hard to see why anyone thought the idea was worth doing even once . |
| 5 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 6 | Currently the Tories hold twenty three seats , Labour seventeen , and twenty two for the Liberal Democrats , and it 's hard to see tomorrow 's vote allowing any party to take the thirty two seats needed for outright control . |
| 7 | The barracking comes from a small minority and it 's hard to take . |
| 8 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 9 | COSE prides itself on its un-organisation : no dues , no structure , no consortium , no budget , and it 's hard to reckon how such a motley crew , left to its own devices , can even begin to expect to defeat Bill Gates , master of the media , without a common war chest and a seriously orchestrated propaganda campaign . |
| 10 | And , and it 's hard to plan around it . |
| 11 | and it 's hard to tip the buggy up when I 've got the heaviest it 's , one in the front , it 's easier with the lightest one let's have your reigns on |
| 12 | But then I do n't hold with the precept de mortuis nil nisi bonum ( I speak as a doctor , after all ) ; and it 's hard to underestimate the irritation when a critic points out something like that to you . |
| 13 | His account of the Italian is sheer joy from beginning to end , and it 's hard to believe that he was almost 87 . |
| 14 | And it 's hard to believe that just four months ago he underwent surgery to have an artificial knee and a steel plate put into his leg . |
| 15 | Down in the corrie , two sparkling blue-green lochans perch beneath the steep cliffs , and it 's hard to imagine that just over the next two gullies , people in golf jumpers are tucking into sticky buns . |
| 16 | There was an obvious theme to the programme that week , but the following show we had Norman Tebbit , John Cleese and Julio Iglesias — and it 's hard to imagine a stranger mixture of people . |
| 17 | ‘ He is one of the best players I have ever worked with and it 's hard to recall him having a bad game . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , yeah , it 's obvious that Runrig had a good listen to the first Big Country album , you know ? ’ he remarks , archly , and it 's hard to tell from his deadpan tone whether or not he 's joking . |
| 19 | The Corrado 's chassis is first class , but watch it attacking a series of bends and it 's hard to understand why . |
| 20 | ‘ The pumpkin was really enormous and it 's hard to understand why anybody would want to steal it . |
| 21 | ‘ You get sucked into the world of married couples , and it 's hard to keep up with bachelor friends . |