Preposition: of

• hearing: Service for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: She works so extremely hard and just presents herself so magnificently.

Infinitive complement

• imagine: Indeed were Carter himself not a real black man, it's not hard to imagine charges of racism being levied against the film.

• believe: It's hard to believe he did it deliberately.

• beat: For the doctor who needs the bottom line in a hurry, this book is hard to beat.

• find: They are a little hard to find on the DFID Web Site.

• understand: Tho the text is hard to understand at points, the humor is to die for.

• tell: It can be hard to tell which one is correct.

Modifies a noun

• disk: Hard disks - FIXED Broken USB Ports - FIXED We save you money.

• drive: Your hard drive might have a capacity of 10 GB.

• copy: For a hard copy or help in reading the Scheme, please contact the Policy Unit.

• work: We thank Clair for all her hard work in the past.

• shoulder: I don't envy the motorists who saw me throwing up on the hard shoulder.

• labor: Committed to Bury jail for 6 weeks hard labor.

Used with adjective complement

• try: I will try harder to be less, well crap.

• work: Dancers in the Company have always worked phenomenally hard.

• fight: In 1997 a group calling themselves ' The Friends of Ogmore ' fought hard with petitions protesting for the reopening of the camp.

• concentrate: In fact we've concentrated really hard on making them really good, in that sense.

• hit: As corporate profits come under increasing pressure from the developing crisis, US capitalists are likely to hit back hard.

• seem: When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.