Example sentences of "is hard [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether in Britain , litigious America or anywhere else , it is hard to prove that a single drug is responsible for causing harm , especially if patients are being prescribed a cocktail of medicines . |
| 2 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 3 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 4 | It is hard to believe that a World Championship event , which will inevitably lack the close communion of teams , could cap this one . |
| 5 | It is hard to believe that a more adventurous policy would not have been justified ( even had it led to more mistakes and power cuts at the winter peak ) . |
| 6 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 7 | It is hard to believe that an inhabitant of the political jungle can be nice ; but in his case all those qualities that we heap under the label of niceness are aspects of the real man . |
| 8 | It is hard to imagine that a term like ‘ daddy 's girls ’ can be applied with fairness , let alone exactitude . |
| 9 | It is hard to assert that a general duty of supervision exists in the absence of fraud by the member States , which would be hard to ascertain , or as a matter of policy to ensure the responsible operation of an international organisation . |