Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adj] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also hard to believe that someone who would use a lap-top computer would forget where he left it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's really easy to believe , here , that we are n't a part of the real world , is n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | And it 's really difficult to believe in things like that ? |
| 4 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps because it 's so easy to believe the worst of you . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose she 's old enough and that , but it 's still hard to believe . |
| 7 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 8 | It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity . |
| 9 | It is similarly naive to believe that management who have relied on these external services will necessarily be able to control them when they are brought in-house |
| 10 | Though there are a few anomalous features in this framing ( and the sceptic is well aware how often unscrupulous dealers have altered or exchanged such items for the sake of a sale ) it is nevertheless easier to believe that it is original than to contrive any coherent explanation . |
| 11 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 12 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 13 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 14 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 15 | Although it is too fanciful to believe that the later Last Tango in Paris could have been influenced by John and Mary , there are nonetheless similarities between the two seemingly worlds-apart movies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is almost impossible to believe that they did not have contemporary events in mind , and as Æthelred was certainly not victorious , the implication is that he was unwise . |
| 18 | Professor Mishan argues that ‘ it is now reasonable to believe that , despite the abundance of man-made goods produced by continued growth , its net effect on human health and happiness could be adverse and possibly disastrous ’ . |
| 19 | In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare . |
| 20 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was quite difficult to believe that there could be any animation in them . |
| 25 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 26 | It was still hard to believe that the pod was not going to be destroyed before it reached the ground . |
| 27 | I think I was just miserable , and it was far easier to believe the reason was something I could do something about , rather than face the fact that my depression was very complicated , based on things like my family not having much money , and feeling very isolated and different from the kids at school . |
| 28 | It was almost impossible to believe . |
| 29 | 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 . |