Example sentences of "it is [adj] believe that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is difficult to believe that a desire to put on a good show at an exhibition could shape a major research programme . |
| 6 | It is difficult to believe that a writer who writes such drivel as does Paul Gallico could be so unpleasantly deluded with grandeur . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is difficult to believe that a religion so strongly anti-idolatory would allow such an image to exist in the holiest of shrines . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is difficult to believe that the idea was successful . |
| 11 | It is difficult to believe that the authors saw the implication of their findings for human medicine . |
| 12 | ARCO may have lost some of its glamour , but with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia performing an important task in educating a local market in international art , it is difficult to believe that the leading galleries will not return in a future year . |
| 13 | It is difficult to believe that the precarious peace can last long , whether or not guns are being dug into the hills around Pristina . |
| 14 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 15 | It is difficult to believe that the Copernican innovation did not encourage questions of this kind . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Secondly , it is difficult to believe that the courts would now fail to recognise that management involves distinctive skills . |
| 18 | It is difficult to believe that the ordinary courts ' particular interpretation of all of these terms will necessarily be better than that of the tribunal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 23 | It is hard to believe that a World Championship event , which will inevitably lack the close communion of teams , could cap this one . |
| 24 | It is hard to believe that a more adventurous policy would not have been justified ( even had it led to more mistakes and power cuts at the winter peak ) . |
| 25 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When one considers the huge cost overruns the West has on each new fighter , tank and warship , it is hard to believe that the same does not happen in Russia . |
| 29 | It is hard to believe that the hiccups over his newly published autobiography can be the real reason behind the decision . |
| 30 | 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 . |