Example sentences of "it be hard [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With a career spanning seventeen years and almost as many albums , it 's hard to deny that Motorhead have earned a bit of a breather , but those that feared the sun and the swimming pools of their self-imposed LA exile might dilute the band 's full-on thrust can finally rest easy . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is hard to think that Anselm did not feel some indignation on reading these words , which implied that he had read too much into Urban II's decree , and that Paschal had not himself been present when those words were spoken . |
| 15 | Despite the usual blazing peroration with which the speech ended , full of ‘ greatness and glory ’ , it is hard to imagine that Mosley and Joyce could long be accommodated in the same political movement . |
| 16 | It was hard to remember that God had made them , too , and that He begged for leniency for them . |
| 17 | The impression was of some sparsely populated , unchanging landscape ; it was hard to realise that Birmingham was less than thirty miles away . |
| 18 | It was hard to explain that things do n't work that way in Hull . |
| 19 | It was hard to imagine that giants had ever made Møn their home . |
| 20 | It was hard to believe that Father Poole was eighty years of age . |
| 21 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 22 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |