Example sentences of "[adj] believe that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is less easy to believe that the large scale migrations of birds are accomplished by memorized landmarks and home cues than are those of the digger wasp and salmon . |
| 2 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |
| 3 | But with Firebrands , Isca and Brean now in the National League , more clubs are likely to believe that the regional competition needs to be strengthened . |
| 4 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 5 | It 's hard to believe that the first meeting of the Galway Races took place at Ballybrit Race Course in 1869 ; and it immediately so fired the public imagination that it has been a major fixture on the Irish racing calendar ever since . |
| 6 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 7 | It would be foolhardy to believe that the Soviet case is unique . |
| 8 | In the rarefied atmosphere of brewery marketing departments it was no doubt possible to believe that the nascent trend towards greater health consciousness and personal responsibility would result in huge demand for reduced alcohol products . |
| 9 | Thus , even though Britain 's population density is double that of China , and per capita resource consumption and pollution far greater , it becomes possible to believe that the third world is threatening ‘ our ’ global environment . |
| 10 | The Chinese believe that the Western habit of nearly always punching to the face is of little use , since there are no vital organs housed there save for the eyes and nose . |
| 11 | ONE still finds it difficult to believe that the International Rugby Football Board will abandon any of the experimental variations in the laws before the Lions ' forthcoming tour . |
| 12 | It is difficult to believe that the precarious peace can last long , whether or not guns are being dug into the hills around Pristina . |
| 13 | It is difficult to believe that the Copernican innovation did not encourage questions of this kind . |
| 14 | It would be nice to believe that the International Board could sort it out , but they do n't seem to want to . |