Example sentences of "[modal v] be hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Elsworth has changed his mind about running BARNBROOK AGAIN ( 1.55 ) in the A.F. Budge Gold Cup and even with 12st , this high class chaser should be hard to beat . |
| 2 | Oliver Sherwood 's MIDNIGHT STORM ( 12.45 ) should be hard to beat in the Concord Business Park Novice Chase at Uttoxeter . |
| 3 | She was , indeed , an extremely hard-working woman , and it is fitting , in a way , that the story of her life should be hard work to read . |
| 4 | Antineutrons should be hard to miss ; Chupp says they would generate a signal of two billion electron volts , four times the 500 million electron volts of the most energetic neutrons detected . |
| 5 | Water should be hard and alkaline , pure and well-oxygenated , and at about 80° F. |
| 6 | The water should be hard , alkaline and very clean , with a temperature of about 80°F . |
| 7 | It should be hard enough to secure the tesserae , but it must not harden before the local pattern has been completed . |
| 8 | It must be hard to have boarders if your family is in a constant case of crisis , as most families are . |
| 9 | Farewells & A Grave With No Name by Juan Carlos Onetti tr by Peter Bush Quartet , £12.95 IT MUST be hard to be a South American novelist these days . |
| 10 | LIFE must be hard in the Vatican — if the latest European Community farm export figures are to believed . |
| 11 | For sheer quantity of waterfrontage — 800 yd of it — Bellscat Farmhouse near Fowey must be hard to beat . |
| 12 | It must be hard to contrive an image and keep it up all the time , ’ he says . |
| 13 | The mints must be hard and dry for the best results and some produce , as I have seen , impressive flashes . |
| 14 | Helmut Rechenburg , his collaborator on this mammoth project , was Heisenberg 's last doctoral student , and clearly well suited to the task in hand Faced with so much material , it must be hard to know what to leave out , and the authors have chosen the best solution — leave nothing out . |
| 15 | I know it must be hard for anyone to accept a set of equations without going through the usual routine of presenting the relevant experimental justifications . |
| 16 | ‘ It must be hard on her taking on all this responsibility . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It must be hard work , ’ I said , neutrally . |
| 18 | Must be hard times for garden designers , ’ Melissa added acidly , ‘ if the state of your vehicle is anything to go by — obviously not much work around . ’ |
| 19 | Times must be hard . ’ |
| 20 | " It must be hard for him . " |
| 21 | It must be hard , she was thinking , to see the person you love so obviously in love with someone else . |
| 22 | I decided you must be hard , self-seeking , ambitious to the point of ruthlessness , and immoral to boot . ’ |
| 23 | Must be hard . |
| 24 | Though total equality might be hard to achieve because of the biological differences between the sexes , the legislation has perhaps been rounded of by the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 . |
| 25 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |
| 26 | ‘ It might be hard , ’ she said , ‘ but better to find out now about Tom than later . ’ |
| 27 | It is very difficult to design a pressed flower picture on to a background material that has already been printed with a design , and if you were to use a floral fabric it might be hard to spot where your picture stops and the print begins . |
| 28 | Such a crack is far too small to see under the optical microscope and might be hard to see with an electron microscope . |
| 29 | Now Richard was leaving Oxford , it might be hard , at first , for us to manage on his salary . |
| 30 | Well , it might be hard to see it as that important . |