1.   Any company would be hard put to find a better couple.

2.   -- you would be hard put to find a single vote.

3.   After all, they point out, one is hard put to find a corner of New York where they have not left their mark.

4.   But museum officials were hard put to find suitable objects to fill the looted display cases.

5.   But without Delors as their flag-bearer, the Socialists will be hard put to find another candidate who enjoys such prestige.

6.   Composers have been hard put to find strong, mythic subjects for musical theater.

7.   But many voters were hard put to find significant policy differences between the two parties.

8.   While we are hard put to find anything wrong with the salmon, it is after all only salmon.