Example sentences of "it is [adj] to imagine that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is implausible to imagine that a man , or a group , would refrain from winning an argument simply because a principle of statelessness excluded contact with external authority . |
| 2 | It is impossible to imagine that there is any purpose to life that makes any sense at all other than that life is to be enjoyed . |
| 3 | It is extraordinary to imagine that she and my mother could ever have been sisters , they were like beings from different species . |
| 4 | ‘ It is helpful to imagine that everything is made up of very small particles called atoms ’ comes , not from some yellowing dog-eared textbook but from the new National Curriculum . |
| 5 | Today , it is easy to imagine that Romanians would indeed welcome Soviet forces with open arms as liberators . |
| 6 | Perhaps others , more forceful , would not have been so diffident : it is easy to imagine that Abdulnabi al-Hatash would have seen It as his duty to browbeat some sense into his juniors . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 9 | IVF is already spreading to developing countries , and it is easy to imagine that other new methods will be introduced as well . |
| 10 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 11 | It is possible to imagine that the person writing it did n't cross the t , which is a common occurrence in handwriting . |
| 12 | It is naïve to imagine that such an ethic can be revived by exhortation alone , or by the use of in uplifting but empty phraseology . |
| 13 | It is difficult to imagine that there will be a return to the status quo ante regarding the closed shop , trade union immunities and pre-strike ballots , the right of council house tenants to buy their own homes ( over a million former council tenants have made such purchases ) , and the position of former nationalized industries . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It is difficult to imagine that such species were rapid swimmers . |
| 16 | It is difficult to imagine that this was once Britains first electric main line . |
| 17 | Schools that have had an HMI inspection have found that much of their work has been done for them — though it is difficult to imagine that schools will therefore be applying in large numbers for a full inspection ! |
| 18 | Astley Cooper claimed ( incorrectly ) that the constitution of the College would not allow more professors to be appointed , although it is difficult to imagine that a course , ideally lasting three years and covering the health and diseases of all species of domesticated animals , could have been undertaken by a professor , an assistant professor and a demonstrator . |
| 19 | But for most it is difficult to imagine that minerals may also have consciousness . |
| 20 | Perhaps for Olga too , it is difficult to imagine that Katia on the court is just another tennis player , and no simply , her fun loving daughter . |
| 21 | Sources at Compagnie des Machines Bull SA say that , in the multi-annual plan , chief executive Bernard Pache is likely to outline further potential partnerships and cost-cutting measures , adding that despite the tough tone , it is difficult to imagine that the new government will refuse all further financing for Bull , letting it run the risk of receivership and the dumping of 30,000 workers , at a time when France 's biggest concern is retaining and creating new jobs . |
| 22 | As far as is known practical tests of centrifugal launchers were never undertaken , and with hindsight it is difficult to imagine that they could have proved to be a practical notion , requiring large structures and imposing high stresses on man and machinery . |
| 23 | However , although it is very likely that the British industrial revolution would have occurred without these funds , it is difficult to imagine that Britain would have achieved the kind of scale and pace of industrial development that it did without access to these funds and to the markets provided by the colonies . |
| 24 | Sources at Bull say that in the multi-annual plan , although Pache is likely to outline further potential partnerships and cost-cutting measures , it is difficult to imagine that the new French government will refuse all further financing for Bull , letting it run the risk of receivership and the dumping of 30,000 workers , at a time when France 's biggest concern is retaining and creating new jobs . |
| 25 | Following Oswald 's ascendancy it is difficult to imagine that Penda and Eowa were other than both subject to his overlordship . |
| 26 | Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy . |
| 27 | As 1989 ends , it is tempting to imagine that Europe is emerging into a wholly new identity , governed by peace not war , common aspirations rather than sectional concerns . |
| 28 | It is tempting to imagine that Modigliani was acting out the runner 's part in his life with Beatrice in those years . |
| 29 | It is naive to imagine that all social conflict is ‘ class ’ conflict at root and that socialist planning can be a wholly harmonious process . |
| 30 | It is hard to imagine that there were once almost 600 Sulzer-engined Bo-Bo locomotives in the 1,160–1,250hp range , because a mere thirty-two survived at the end of 1989 . |