Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] believe [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT 'S HARD TO believe but tetanus still kills people in this country . |
| 2 | With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week . |
| 3 | Striding over this beautiful coastline , it 's hard to believe that Belfast and its atrocities is just an hour 's drive away . |
| 4 | IT 'S hard to believe that Damon Hill is still in his first full season of Formula One . |
| 5 | The huge , gently tilting summit plateau is vast and it is easy to believe that locals held horse races here last century . |
| 6 | The intervention of the unsavoury witchdoctor Zikali , who appears to be in mental communication with Ayesha as she rules in Kôr , in a way diminishes her immortal , all-powerful aspect , yet it is easy to believe that Allan , always tormented by memories of his two beloved wives , Mane and Stella , should be persuaded by Zikali to visit Ayesha and win through her power a glimpse of the lost ones . |
| 7 | Looking at his work , it is easy to believe that Rackham recorded , rather than imagined , these events . |
| 8 | As long as the attitudes to women 's status and obligations and the division of labour within the family remain unchanged , it is difficult to believe that gender will be irrelevant to politics . |
| 9 | But it is difficult to believe that directors do not give at least some consideration to the impact of their decisions on employees in any event , regardless of the section . |
| 10 | In fact , if the problem is set within the context of an evidently powerful late-tenth-century Danish monarchy , it is difficult to believe that Harald Bluetooth or his son could not have introduced a naval system had they wished , and when the concern about the country 's southern land defences is remembered , along with the importance that must also have been attached to protection from sea-borne attack , it might seem more likely than not that they did wish . |
| 11 | It is difficult to believe that pupils gain a great deal more from being in a group of six rather than seven pupils ; or that the curriculum of a 43-pupil school ( the average size derived from these statistics ) , can be much more enriched by seven rather than six teachers . |
| 12 | The change is revolutionary , and it is difficult to believe that Freud had nothing to do with it ( though , possibly , through misunderstandings of what he said ) . |
| 13 | It is unrealistic to believe that warning labels will do anything to reduce alcohol abuse . |
| 14 | Looking back over Pearson 's historical review , it is hard to believe that Britain 's cities are any more perilous today than those of pre-industrial times , or when they were frequented by gangs of Garotters and Hooligans . |
| 15 | Certainly it is hard to believe that bull-leapers grasped the horns , and relied on the tossing movement to get them safely over the bull 's head . |
| 16 | It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 . |
| 17 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 18 | Faced with this combination of forced scrupulosity and ingenious casuistry it is hard to believe that gratuities were an entirely natural and accepted part of the system . |
| 19 | Since there is no guarantee that the behaviour of participants during the life of a co-operative R&D venture will mesh with their initial goals , or that new , anticompetitive restrictions will not be added to what started out as a pro-competitive co-operative R&D agreement , it is hard to believe that immunity from prosecution is an attractive policy option in the absence of continuous monitoring by the antitrust authorities . |
| 20 | ‘ It is hard to believe that poverty stalks the land when even the poorest fifth of families with children spend nearly a tenth of their income on alcohol and tobacco ’ , was Mr Moore 's dismissive conclusion . |
| 21 | Given the substantial experience that many schools have built up of alternative timetabling structures — through the provision of BTEC courses , for instance , or CPVE , or through modular and cyclical courses under TVEI — it is hard to believe that schools will not take the opportunity of reviewing present practice to reflect more closely what we know about effective learning . |
| 22 | In Milan the victims and suspected victims — and it is hard to believe that non-sufferers ever survived being suspected sufferers — were herded in to a custom-built enclosure . |
| 23 | It is popular to believe that managers are responsible for developing their people but closer examination reveals this to be a nonsense . |
| 24 | It was difficult to believe that Howarth had n't entered his room since the discovery of the body . |
| 25 | It was hard to believe that Father Poole was eighty years of age . |
| 26 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 27 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |