Example sentences of "be hard [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today it is hard to realise that the canal was the late eighteenth-century equivalent to the M1 , which lies five miles away to the east . |
| 2 | The first is that it is hard to ensure that the industry really does minimize costs . |
| 3 | It is hard to think that the novelist intended the reader to find this even more gnomic and exasperating than the colleague seems to find it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is hard to believe that the hiccups over his newly published autobiography can be the real reason behind the decision . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is hard to imagine that the deception is successful , and the explanation is not one which flatters either group . |
| 9 | IT IS hard to imagine that the writer of a book such as this , aiming as he does to address a mainstream readership , would , even two or three years ago , have felt the need seriously to discuss the role and future of the nation state in Europe . |
| 10 | This seems to be correct , for in a legal system where the potential treaty parties number only around two hundred , it is hard to assert that the identity of a treaty partner is immaterial . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's hard to accept that the people we care for may not feel the same way about us . |
| 15 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 16 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 17 | Yet it was hard to believe that the explanation for all this was that a schoolboy was in the hands of devils . |