Example sentences of "it is [adj] to imagine that " in BNC.
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| 31 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 32 | It is hard to imagine that it was the cause of much sadness . |
| 33 | It is hard to imagine that a term like ‘ daddy 's girls ’ can be applied with fairness , let alone exactitude . |
| 34 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 35 | Sir , — It is hard to imagine that the Chief Whip of the Conservative Party could ever write such a disgraceful letter to the national media ( March 13th ) . |
| 36 | It is hard to imagine that not so very long ago there were no words for sellotape , instant-mix , deep-freeze , TV , drip-dry , silicon chip or jet-lag . |
| 37 | Despite the usual blazing peroration with which the speech ended , full of ‘ greatness and glory ’ , it is hard to imagine that Mosley and Joyce could long be accommodated in the same political movement . |
| 38 | It is hard to imagine that the deception is successful , and the explanation is not one which flatters either group . |
| 39 | With history speeding up on every side , it is hard to imagine that the present edgy equilibrium can last for very long . |
| 40 | Strictly , then , it is hard to imagine that such organizations exist . |
| 41 | Since he has shown this sort of network to be discernible in a wide range of different kinds of poetry , and since it is hard to imagine that it could also be found in non-poetic language , there seems to be a strong prima facie case for accepting his argument that the principle of equivalence provides an objective criterion for identifying the poetic function . |
| 42 | IT IS hard to imagine that the writer of a book such as this , aiming as he does to address a mainstream readership , would , even two or three years ago , have felt the need seriously to discuss the role and future of the nation state in Europe . |
| 43 | Regarding the method of diagnosis , it is hard to imagine that the apparent effect is real . |