Example sentences of "it is hard for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Because they are obviously scared of needles and it is hard for their parents , having to inject them .
2 It is hard for them to find the relevance to their lives of the words that are being used .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It is hard for them not to believe , for they slip in and out of belief caressed by the changing breezes of cultural fashion .
6 It is hard for them .
7 It is hard for them to convince the rich countries to make sacrifices on their behalf .
8 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 .
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 There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher .
11 It is hard for us to communicate back to a horse with body language , but we can simulate some of the horse 's actions .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 All aspects of education are necessary to develop a whole personality and every child has a whole personality , even if it is hard for us to see this at times .
15 So much has taken place in so little time , it is hard for us to really grasp the rapid pace of development .
16 We think that physics is complicated because it is hard for us to understand , and because physics books are full of difficult mathematics .
17 It is hard for us to comprehend that thousands of students have roamed and studied on ‘ our ’ campus since long before most of us were born .
18 It is hard for you too .
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