Example sentences of "it [is] hard believe that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The ideological points are still there but it 's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight .
2 Playing in a park in Northampton this afternoon , it 's hard to believe that 6 year old Natalie Hill is desperately sick .
3 Now it 's hard to believe that half a century ago piped water , sewerage and bathrooms complete with toilet and bath were luxuries many did n't have .
4 The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment .
5 I could understand one man imagining that he saw a person in the immediate area of the box but it is hard to believe that two level-headed signalmen could have been mistaken enough to be confused by the same phenomenon .
6 Watching Laura , it is hard to believe that one year ago this chubby child from Manchester with the tangle of blonde curls was a jaundiced , wasted waif , waiting to die .
7 It is hard to believe that one architect created all three : the dour , round-arched entrance front , the blandly conventional west front and the garden front serenely composed about its canted bay with female heads , heraldic complexities and subtle drapes of rustication .
8 If Alexander II had died before ascending the throne , it is hard to believe that some Russian Fortinbras would have said he was " likely , had he been put on , to have proved most royal " .
9 But it is hard to believe that three such bumblers could ever have got the paper off the ground .
10 How much the meeting was told about the previous shipments to Iran is unclear but it is hard to believe that those present were not aware of them .
11 It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis
12 It is hard to believe that any business whose life blood is communications could lag behind in using modern information technology , but that is how it is with British public relations .
13 Perhaps this is considered too expensive , but it is hard to believe that 240 doctors can be trained at no capital cost , even if there is head space at medical schools .
14 It is hard to believe that this 8,000 acre agricultural estate owned by the Crown was once a small mid-river sandbank often submerged by spring tides .
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