Example sentences of "[adj] believe that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 2 | She had initially found it impossible to believe that a respected , churchgoing man could have been pushed beyond the limit of his endurance and have killed . |
| 3 | It was hard to believe that a monosyllable could convey so much terror . |
| 4 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 5 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 6 | It was hard to believe that a few moments earlier he 'd aroused that snake-pit of desire inside her . |
| 7 | The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth . |
| 8 | I find it difficult to believe that a male Oscar would let a female spawn on her own — unless she was so much larger than him that he dare not go near . |