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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 " .
6 But it is hard to believe that three such bumblers could ever have got the paper off the ground .
7 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 .
8 It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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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