Example sentences of "[adj] believe [conj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a raw spring day at Shingle Street last week , it was easy to believe that this tiny hamlet held some great mystery . |
| 2 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 3 | It 's hard to believe but this river , the Cristolino is part of the same Tappajoss river system where Garrimperos have caused such devastation . |
| 4 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I find it hard to believe that this amount would be likely to deter someone from participating in a tournament . |
| 7 | It was hard to believe that this clumsy box of bricks was strong enough to withstand the pressure of its wings . |
| 8 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 9 | Kate still found it hard to believe that this single-minded , dedicated , successful career man could be so uncertain of himself . |
| 10 | ‘ Hard to believe that this much litter could be caused by a few inebriated louts . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'm inclined to believe that this probably happened after the guitar left the Hamer factory ; any quality control worth its salt would have picked it up , otherwise . |
| 13 | When you have seen an egg broken into a frying pan of hot fat so that it turns from a clear fluid into a rubbery opaque solid , you are inclined to believe that this is quite a good way to cook an egg . |
| 14 | As I looked down at him lying there it was difficult to believe that this was Shimi Lovat . |
| 15 | It is astonishing to find that ‘ unemployment ’ finds no mention in the book and difficult to believe that this ‘ megatrend ’ will not have as great an influence on the United States in the 1980s as the 10 trends which he discusses . |
| 16 | However , it is difficult to believe that this amounts to as much as £30 per hour . |
| 17 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 18 | In some cases they may explode or manage to throw off enough matter to reduce their mass below the limit and so avoid catastrophic gravitational collapse , but it was difficult to believe that this always happened , no matter how big the star . |
| 19 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 20 | Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians . |