Example sentences of "[pers pn] be hard to believe that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week .
2 Striding over this beautiful coastline , it 's hard to believe that Belfast and its atrocities is just an hour 's drive away .
3 IT 'S hard to believe that Damon Hill is still in his first full season of Formula One .
4 Looking back over Pearson 's historical review , it is hard to believe that Britain 's cities are any more perilous today than those of pre-industrial times , or when they were frequented by gangs of Garotters and Hooligans .
5 Certainly it is hard to believe that bull-leapers grasped the horns , and relied on the tossing movement to get them safely over the bull 's head .
6 It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 .
7 It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months .
8 Faced with this combination of forced scrupulosity and ingenious casuistry it is hard to believe that gratuities were an entirely natural and accepted part of the system .
9 Since there is no guarantee that the behaviour of participants during the life of a co-operative R&D venture will mesh with their initial goals , or that new , anticompetitive restrictions will not be added to what started out as a pro-competitive co-operative R&D agreement , it is hard to believe that immunity from prosecution is an attractive policy option in the absence of continuous monitoring by the antitrust authorities .
10 It is hard to believe that poverty stalks the land when even the poorest fifth of families with children spend nearly a tenth of their income on alcohol and tobacco ’ , was Mr Moore 's dismissive conclusion .
11 Given the substantial experience that many schools have built up of alternative timetabling structures — through the provision of BTEC courses , for instance , or CPVE , or through modular and cyclical courses under TVEI — it is hard to believe that schools will not take the opportunity of reviewing present practice to reflect more closely what we know about effective learning .
12 In Milan the victims and suspected victims — and it is hard to believe that non-sufferers ever survived being suspected sufferers — were herded in to a custom-built enclosure .
13 It was hard to believe that Father Poole was eighty years of age .
14 It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier !
15 It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year .
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