Example sentences of "but it [be] hard to imagine " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may apply to some African countries , but it is hard to imagine the two biggest aid recipients , Egypt and Bangladesh , doing a great deal more to feed themselves . |
| 2 | Energy efficiency may be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide but it is hard to imagine it being applied effectively in Third World countries , whose output of the gas is likely to overtake the developed world 's in the second or third decade of the next century . |
| 3 | Eubank may not have Ali 's skills , but it is hard to imagine him becoming as used by boxing as the great man was . |
| 4 | The President 's successors in Kabul are ready to work with the UN peace process , but it is hard to imagine the rebels agreeing to join in when victory is so close . |
| 5 | For instance , molecular evidence suggests a close alliance between molluscs and annelids , but it is hard to imagine how an animal like the most primitive known annelid ( an archiannelid ? ) was transformed into a primitive mollusc ( a chiton ? ) . |
| 6 | To keep prisoners so near to a frontier on the far side of which they would be free , could seem a casual or risky policy , but it is hard to imagine anyone actually escaping from Le Portalet , whose grated windows you can see from the road , with a nasty drop of a good 100 feet straight on to the rocks beneath them . |
| 7 | The net assets of the organization are shown but it is hard to imagine what use can be made of this figure . |
| 8 | They retired from active officership in 1957 but it is hard to imagine either of them not being still fully involved in whatever spheres of service were still open to them , including the all important regular letters to Eva . |
| 9 | I suppose I would have managed to get through without them , but it 's hard to imagine how . |
| 10 | But it 's hard to imagine what she did to deserve a fate like this . ’ |
| 11 | they 'd be all sorts of ways in which they could of kept the agented funds , erm they could of been , but it 's hard to imagine that , that |
| 12 | Colonies were very handy bargaining counters if a state wanted to concede something less important than territory in Europe , but it was hard to imagine that any country would want to take all of its rivals ' imperial possessions . |