Example sentences of "be [adj] to believe that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be wrong to believe that the body clock develops only in response to a rhythmic environment and the effect upon the sleep/wake and feeding rhythms that this produces . |
| 2 | It is the person towards whom the words or conduct are directed — an actual rather than a hypothetical person — who must be likely to believe that the violence will be used , either against himself or another . |
| 3 | It would be nice to believe that the Health Secretary spends all his time understanding the very latest developments in heart-lung transplants . |
| 4 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 5 | One senior source said : ‘ It is possible to believe that the Diana recording was made by a radio ham who just happened to pick it up . |
| 6 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |
| 7 | At first it is easy to believe that the child is engaged in an equal dialogue with a machine intelligence , so apposite are some of the replies . |
| 8 | If a policeman encounters a person using threatening language against another , he must make a judgment as to whether or not the addressee of the threats is likely to believe that the threats will be implemented . |
| 9 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 10 | It is hard to believe that a World Championship event , which will inevitably lack the close communion of teams , could cap this one . |
| 11 | It is hard to believe that an inhabitant of the political jungle can be nice ; but in his case all those qualities that we heap under the label of niceness are aspects of the real man . |
| 12 | It is hard to believe that the success of a Medau Teacher Training Course ( and therefore our regional development ) should have to depend on the proceeds of a raffle , but that 's just how it was in the late '60s in MANCHESTER . |
| 13 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 14 | It is hard to believe that the hiccups over his newly published autobiography can be the real reason behind the decision . |
| 15 | Rent 's supposed allies appear little more than an improbable amalgam of all those who might be opposed to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella , and it is hard to believe that the conspiracy had such wide-ranging support . |
| 16 | It 's hard to believe that a car as heavy as the SL can generate such massive grip , yet retain an admirably accomplished ride . |
| 17 | It 's hard to believe that the man who used to play the bass in a sullen and studenty pop group called The Housemartins is the creator of this year 's most significant number one single , but the success of ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is a sing that things have truly changed for the better . |
| 18 | With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks . |
| 19 | The apartments are set against a mountain backdrop and the views are superb ; it 's hard to believe that the discos , lively bars and general hustle of Benitses are only a five to ten minute walk away . |
| 20 | It is difficult to believe that a writer who writes such drivel as does Paul Gallico could be so unpleasantly deluded with grandeur . |
| 21 | It is difficult to believe that a desire to put on a good show at an exhibition could shape a major research programme . |
| 22 | It is difficult to believe that a religion so strongly anti-idolatory would allow such an image to exist in the holiest of shrines . |
| 23 | Even if micro-organisms can be preserved in chert , it is difficult to believe that a creature as large but as fragile and insubstantial as a jellyfish could retain its shape long enough to be fossilised . |
| 24 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |
| 25 | IN MRS Barrass ' description of ‘ hunting horror ’ ( HAS Jan 29 ) it is difficult to believe that the couple running up and down egging on the hounds ( not dogs , please ) were real hunt supporters . |
| 26 | To cite the now familiar evidence of mosaics from ( soil it is difficult to believe that the mosaic which features Bacchus in a square central panel amid an arrangement of saltires and interlaced squares ( Parlasca 1959 , pI . |
| 27 | It is difficult to believe that the idea was successful . |
| 28 | Secondly , it is difficult to believe that the courts would now fail to recognise that management involves distinctive skills . |
| 29 | It is difficult to believe that the submission , valuable for the record and indeed used by Baldwin in his House of Commons speech the following afternoon , would have been sent had Baldwin not satisfied himself the night before what the answer would be . |
| 30 | It is difficult to believe that the authors saw the implication of their findings for human medicine . |