Example sentences of "[coord] it [is] [adj] imagine " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down in the corrie , two sparkling blue-green lochans perch beneath the steep cliffs , and it 's hard to imagine that just over the next two gullies , people in golf jumpers are tucking into sticky buns . |
| 2 | There was an obvious theme to the programme that week , but the following show we had Norman Tebbit , John Cleese and Julio Iglesias — and it 's hard to imagine a stranger mixture of people . |
| 3 | When moving around the surface of the Earth , one can not fail to be impressed by the diversity of all that one sees , and it is easy to imagine that there is an infinite complexity of different ‘ things ’ not apparently related to one another . |
| 4 | IVF is already spreading to developing countries , and it is easy to imagine that other new methods will be introduced as well . |
| 5 | He sings sordid lines , celebrating the ‘ tickling ’ and ‘ dying of sex ’ ; and it is easy to imagine Paris 's hands straying over his lover 's body while the tune progresses , and throughout the entire scene . |
| 6 | The ‘ merry-go-round ’ system which allows loading and discharge to take place while an entire train remains in motion has continued to form the mainstay of Railfreight Coal 's operations , and it is difficult to imagine a more efficient alternative . |
| 7 | Mannheim compared the meanings given to social being to the givenness of language and it is difficult to imagine the individual ‘ affiliating ’ to their first language , exactly because of its givenness to the individual as part of social being . |
| 8 | These are not the accounts given by spectators and it is difficult to imagine them offering such accounts . |
| 9 | The pensioner movement is only growing very slowly in Britain and it is hard to imagine the prosperous 20 per cent of pensioners feeling they had much in common with the 40 per cent who are completely dependent on state benefits . |
| 10 | Most of the rules are applied strictly and it is hard to imagine any outcome more frustrating than for your legitimate claim to fail simply because you have been guilty of delay . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 13 | The inside of the church of Sainte-Marie is oppressively ornate , and it is hard to imagine anyone who responds to the simple exterior of the building responding to the interior as well . |
| 14 | But it is easy to imagine the development of the other two in derived or dialectical variants . |
| 15 | In this example , No. 3 is the same as No. 1 , but it is easy to imagine many circumstances in which they would be different in practice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Eubank may not have Ali 's skills , but it is hard to imagine him becoming as used by boxing as the great man was . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The net assets of the organization are shown but it is hard to imagine what use can be made of this figure . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it is difficult to imagine America 's corporate leaders advocating a crackdown on executive wining-and-dining , even for the Japanese . |
| 25 | But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) . |
| 26 | But it is difficult to imagine him going to Stamford Bridge or instructing London Welsh in the value of second-phase possession . |
| 27 | Demands for change will continue , but it is difficult to imagine substantial progress being made in the current climate , as broadcasting , and the media in general , becomes increasingly unaccountable to society as a whole . |
| 28 | But it is difficult to imagine how Dustin could have felt any involvement in the picture . |
| 29 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 30 | I suppose I would have managed to get through without them , but it 's hard to imagine how . |