The scandalous cover-ups that have blighted China's response to SARS and avian influenza should become harder.
Even if industry leaders are slow to catch on, the audience for older female perspectives is emerging in a way that should become harder to ignore.
Nevertheless, the positive results are now there for all to see, and it should become harder for the administration to keep blaming everything from the California energy crisis to the economic slowdown on environmental regulations.
New tax powers, which Holyrood has already inherited and of which it will soon acquire more, mean it should become harder to blame all Scotland's problems on London and the Conservatives, which may bring opposition parties (possibly new ones) into the frame.
These games should start pretty easy to let the player get the hang of the puzzle, but it should become harder and harder as they progress to win.
Yet, in times as such we should not become hard by the petrifying stories that fill the means of communication.
The gum should freeze entirely and become hard, making it easier to remove.
Theory argues that it should become ever harder to earn a good return on wealth the more there is of it.
— transformation, become — hard!
