Example sentences of "it [adv] hard [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 2 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As a county we seem to have a need to make it as hard to succeed as we can . |
| 7 | Claud however found it increasingly hard to earn because of his Communist past and it was left to Patricia to keep the various wolves from the door . |
| 8 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I 've found it very hard to relax because of the pressures . |
| 10 | I find it very hard to understand that if a person who admits to having raped a person can get away with it . |
| 11 | The implications for us are that we shall have to find it very hard to ensure that we get a share of that grant to spend on implementation of the Food Safety Act . |
| 12 | I would still find it very hard to believe that any evidence of mitigation would justify a non-custodial sentence , to someone who has broken twenty-three bones in their child 's body . |