Example sentences of "it [be] hard [to-vb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard to think that these 2 teams are next to each other in the league . |
| 2 | The ideological points are still there but it 's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight . |
| 3 | Playing in a park in Northampton this afternoon , it 's hard to believe that 6 year old Natalie Hill is desperately sick . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is no reason to suspect Tribonian of pontifical predilections , so it is hard to suppose that this is an interpolation . |
| 6 | The simultaneous withdrawal of the state from regulative intervention in labour matters clearly advantaged employers and it is hard to deny that all this amounted to class legislation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | But it is hard to believe that three such bumblers could ever have got the paper off the ground . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 19 | Strictly , then , it is hard to imagine that such organizations exist . |
| 20 | It is hard to recall that this peaceful pathway , less than a mile long , was once an important means of communication and is a vital link with part of Cornish history . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was hard to believe that this clumsy box of bricks was strong enough to withstand the pressure of its wings . |
| 23 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 24 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 25 | It was hard to believe that most of these islands were populated and we often caught glimpses of island ferries plying industriously between lonely rockbound piers . |