Example sentences of "[be] hard believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 3 | Watching Laura , it is hard to believe that one year ago this chubby child from Manchester with the tangle of blonde curls was a jaundiced , wasted waif , waiting to die . |
| 4 | It is hard to believe that one architect created all three : the dour , round-arched entrance front , the blandly conventional west front and the garden front serenely composed about its canted bay with female heads , heraldic complexities and subtle drapes of rustication . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is considered too expensive , but it is hard to believe that 240 doctors can be trained at no capital cost , even if there is head space at medical schools . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis |
| 8 | It is hard to believe that any business whose life blood is communications could lag behind in using modern information technology , but that is how it is with British public relations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it is hard to believe that three such bumblers could ever have got the paper off the ground . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ideological points are still there but it 's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight . |
| 13 | Playing in a park in Northampton this afternoon , it 's hard to believe that 6 year old Natalie Hill is desperately sick . |
| 14 | Now it 's hard to believe that half a century ago piped water , sewerage and bathrooms complete with toilet and bath were luxuries many did n't have . |
| 15 | It was hard to believe that this clumsy box of bricks was strong enough to withstand the pressure of its wings . |
| 16 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 17 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 18 | It was hard to believe that most of these islands were populated and we often caught glimpses of island ferries plying industriously between lonely rockbound piers . |