Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] believe [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 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 is , for example , quite mistaken to believe that all farmers are hostile towards environmentalism . |
| 4 | For John , on his endless round of visits to cuttings and embankments , tunnels and bridges , it was sometimes hard to believe that all this buzz of well-organized industry could be brought to a halt by the movement of bits of paper in the far-off City . |
| 5 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 6 | I would still find it very hard to believe that any evidence of mitigation would justify a non-custodial sentence , to someone who has broken twenty-three bones in their child 's body . |