Example sentences of "is hard [verb] [conj] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simultaneous withdrawal of the state from regulative intervention in labour matters clearly advantaged employers and it is hard to deny that all this amounted to class legislation . |
| 2 | It is hard to recall that this peaceful pathway , less than a mile long , was once an important means of communication and is a vital link with part of Cornish history . |
| 3 | I could understand one man imagining that he saw a person in the immediate area of the box but it is hard to believe that two level-headed signalmen could have been mistaken enough to be confused by the same phenomenon . |
| 4 | If Alexander II had died before ascending the throne , it is hard to believe that some Russian Fortinbras would have said he was " likely , had he been put on , to have proved most royal " . |
| 5 | How much the meeting was told about the previous shipments to Iran is unclear but it is hard to believe that those present were not aware of them . |
| 6 | But it is hard to believe that three such bumblers could ever have got the paper off the ground . |
| 7 | It is hard to believe that this 8,000 acre agricultural estate owned by the Crown was once a small mid-river sandbank often submerged by spring tides . |