11.   The last few months have been especially hard for her.

12.   This must make it hard for the agencies who undertake to deliver telephone sales messages.

13.   Until recently, you would have had to look long and hard for an oil rig amid the bucolic scenery here.

14.   The media are obviously hard up for stories.

15.   This refusal to consider the issue logically makes it hard for even trained scientists and other experts to see the matter clearly.

16.   We shall have to go pretty hard for the rest of the year to cover this interest and generate greater earnings per share.

17.   Catesby and Melford had already departed, riding hard for Nottingham, leaving Agrippa, the Careys, Moodie and the old quack Scawsby at Royston.

18.   The fact that BBC and ITV rarely use the old test card any more means that people playing this anonymous instrumental pap are hard up for work.

19.   It was often hard for the minister or civil servant... to know when normal procedures might be disrupted by a sudden intervention from the Elyse.

20.   These data suggest that there is a durable core of banks and securities houses whose position is hard for other banks to challenge.