Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard to believe that a car as heavy as the SL can generate such massive grip , yet retain an admirably accomplished ride . |
| 2 | With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week . |
| 3 | It 's hard to believe that the man who used to play the bass in a sullen and studenty pop group called The Housemartins is the creator of this year 's most significant number one single , but the success of ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is a sing that things have truly changed for the better . |
| 4 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 5 | The apartments are set against a mountain backdrop and the views are superb ; it 's hard to believe that the discos , lively bars and general hustle of Benitses are only a five to ten minute walk away . |
| 6 | It 's hard to believe that he started painting in World War Two and is still painting today . |
| 7 | His account of the Italian is sheer joy from beginning to end , and it 's hard to believe that he was almost 87 . |
| 8 | With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's hard to believe that I could have spent two whole years walking round with blinkers on . |
| 10 | The ideological points are still there but it 's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight . |
| 11 | Suave and sophisticated at 60 , it 's hard to believe that it 's 23 years since he first wooed a generation with Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head . |
| 12 | It 's hard to believe that the first meeting of the Galway Races took place at Ballybrit Race Course in 1869 ; and it immediately so fired the public imagination that it has been a major fixture on the Irish racing calendar ever since . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's hard to believe that anyone would go to such lengths , is n't it ? ’ |
| 14 | Playing in a park in Northampton this afternoon , it 's hard to believe that 6 year old Natalie Hill is desperately sick . |
| 15 | And it 's hard to believe that just four months ago he underwent surgery to have an artificial knee and a steel plate put into his leg . |
| 16 | To see them together now it 's hard to believe that less than six months ago Tanya ’ Pret chen ska ’ from Russia thought of giving up her baby . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | IT 'S hard to believe that Damon Hill is still in his first full season of Formula One . |
| 19 | Striding over this beautiful coastline , it 's hard to believe that Belfast and its atrocities is just an hour 's drive away . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's difficult to believe that I 'm still a Musketeer , but I am , and as we 've always told each other everything , I must tell you that although Mummy and Dad do such a lot for me , I 'm Perfectly miserable . |
| 21 | It 's difficult to believe that he was expelled from nursery school at the age of three for being a ‘ smart alec ’ . |
| 22 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 23 | As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur . |
| 24 | If Philip Leapor 's mother was indeed the woman who died in 1726 , it is reasonable to believe that he took over a house which she had occupied , and leased a separate piece of ground for his nursery . |
| 25 | When a respondent , in reply to the ‘ who am I ? ’ question of the Twenty Statements Test writes ‘ I am a man ’ , ‘ I am a student ’ … it is reasonable to believe that we have far more solid knowledge of the attitudes which organize and direct his behaviour than if , on a checklist and among other questions , we had asked ‘ do you think of yourself as a man ? ’ |
| 26 | The huge , gently tilting summit plateau is vast and it is easy to believe that locals held horse races here last century . |
| 27 | It is easy to believe that owning money brings happiness . |
| 28 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |
| 29 | The intervention of the unsavoury witchdoctor Zikali , who appears to be in mental communication with Ayesha as she rules in Kôr , in a way diminishes her immortal , all-powerful aspect , yet it is easy to believe that Allan , always tormented by memories of his two beloved wives , Mane and Stella , should be persuaded by Zikali to visit Ayesha and win through her power a glimpse of the lost ones . |
| 30 | At first it is easy to believe that the child is engaged in an equal dialogue with a machine intelligence , so apposite are some of the replies . |