Example sentences of "is difficult to believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would not wish to underestimate the capabilities of my fellow countrymen for self-deception ; but it is difficult to believe that there can be further instalments of the saga which began for the people of Great Britain with the successful revolt of the American colonies . |
| 2 | It is difficult to believe that many of the prestige projects discussed in Chapter 8 would have been contemplated in the absence of the very high volumes of aid reaching countries for other , more mundane , purposes . |
| 3 | It is difficult to believe that the idea was successful . |
| 4 | ‘ It is difficult to believe otherwise , ’ she says in an editorial , ‘ that certain television professionals have deliberately ‘ pushed out the boat ’ in calculated attempts to normalise language and behaviour which has previously been seen — and then only occasionally — in very late/early morning films . ’ |
| 5 | Later in the book he expands on this , saying : We are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet of a very average star in the outer suburbs of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies … that it is difficult to believe in a god that would care about us or even notice our existence . |
| 6 | It is difficult to believe that such a mechanism could have predicted the success of a full size lift . |
| 7 | It is difficult to believe that the authors saw the implication of their findings for human medicine . |
| 8 | For numerous studies have shown that a high percentage of the population have committed criminal offences , in particular high proportions of juveniles , and it is difficult to believe that they are all different or abnormal . |
| 9 | Even the Greatest himself , Cassius Clay , alias Muhammed Ali , who seemed to have had a highly successful career during which a minimal number of punches were landed to his head , has suffered a brain condition which it is difficult to believe is unconnected with his trade . |
| 10 | It is difficult to believe that a desire to put on a good show at an exhibition could shape a major research programme . |
| 11 | The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection . |
| 12 | However , it is difficult to believe that this amounts to as much as £30 per hour . |
| 13 | It is difficult to believe that a writer who writes such drivel as does Paul Gallico could be so unpleasantly deluded with grandeur . |
| 14 | Still , it is difficult to believe that either linguistics or psychology has achieved a level of theoretical understanding that might enable it to support a ‘ technology ’ of language teaching . |
| 15 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
| 16 | It is difficult to believe that she was not embalmed and Elizabeth Southwell , a minor courtier , relates how Lord Cecil ordered it to be done and Clapham , in his Elizabeth of England , states that ‘ The Queen 's body was left in a manner alone a day or two after her death and meane persons [ embalmers ] had access to it . ’ |
| 17 | By day , Claxby signal box is warm and friendly and it is difficult to believe that any mysterious events could take place there . |
| 18 | Moreover , it is difficult to believe that anyone who can be as dull as Hoccleve can , when using literary conventions , could suddenly become as lively as he does by merely adopting a new one : the ‘ autobiographical ’ convention . |
| 19 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 20 | ARCO may have lost some of its glamour , but with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia performing an important task in educating a local market in international art , it is difficult to believe that the leading galleries will not return in a future year . |
| 21 | As long as the attitudes to women 's status and obligations and the division of labour within the family remain unchanged , it is difficult to believe that gender will be irrelevant to politics . |
| 22 | The change is revolutionary , and it is difficult to believe that Freud had nothing to do with it ( though , possibly , through misunderstandings of what he said ) . |
| 23 | It is difficult to believe that any of the characters examined by Burdon could be selectively neutral . |
| 24 | It is difficult to believe that the precarious peace can last long , whether or not guns are being dug into the hills around Pristina . |
| 25 | King John may have been willing to agree to anything , even the dismemberment of his kingdom , in order to ensure that he did not die in prison ; but , as Professor Fowler remarked , the treaty was ‘ so preposterous that it is difficult to believe that it was ever intended seriously ’ . |
| 26 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 27 | It is difficult to believe that fifteen to twenty years ago the majority of people in this country did not have a bank Current Account . |
| 28 | It is difficult to believe that anyone in April seriously feared that Gloucester had designs on the crown . |
| 29 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 30 | Although his proposal of plural worlds was considered heretical , it is difficult to believe it was that which determined his fate . |