Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] believe [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Striding over this beautiful coastline , it 's hard to believe that Belfast and its atrocities is just an hour 's drive away . |
| 3 | IT 'S hard to believe that Damon Hill is still in his first full season of Formula One . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Looking at his work , it is easy to believe that Rackham recorded , rather than imagined , these events . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 11 | It was difficult to believe that Howarth had n't entered his room since the discovery of the body . |
| 12 | It was hard to believe that Father Poole was eighty years of age . |
| 13 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 14 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |