Example sentences of "it is [adj] believe [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three basic misconceptions which are especially common : first , that doubt is wrong because it is the same thing as unbelief ; second , that doubt is a problem which troubles faith but not knowledge ; and third , that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 2 | In this chapter we will examine a third misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | The huge , gently tilting summit plateau is vast and it is easy to believe that locals held horse races here last century . |
| 7 | It is easy to believe that owning money brings happiness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking at his work , it is easy to believe that Rackham recorded , rather than imagined , these events . |
| 12 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 13 | Terry Waite languishes in Lebanon — but it is possible to believe that if our Government came up with a suitably attractive offer , he would be released . |
| 14 | One senior source said : ‘ It is possible to believe that the Diana recording was made by a radio ham who just happened to pick it up . |
| 15 | This is referred to as the principle of actualism by Douglas ( 1980 ) citing Russian geologists Gorshkov and Yakushova and , whereas it is rejected by Douglas and also by Ollier ( 1979,1981 ) , it is possible to believe that although the past development of an area may not be explicable in terms of the processes at present operating in that area , nevertheless study of present processes may collectively help to illuminate the past . |
| 16 | It is important to believe that you have acquired most of your ways of behaving because that opens up the possibility of behaviour being malleable rather than something fixed and unchanging . |
| 17 | I would not wish to underestimate the capabilities of my fellow countrymen for self-deception ; but it is difficult to believe that there can be further instalments of the saga which began for the people of Great Britain with the successful revolt of the American colonies . |
| 18 | It is difficult to believe that many of the prestige projects discussed in Chapter 8 would have been contemplated in the absence of the very high volumes of aid reaching countries for other , more mundane , purposes . |
| 19 | It is difficult to believe that the idea was successful . |
| 20 | It is difficult to believe that such a mechanism could have predicted the success of a full size lift . |
| 21 | It is difficult to believe that the authors saw the implication of their findings for human medicine . |
| 22 | For numerous studies have shown that a high percentage of the population have committed criminal offences , in particular high proportions of juveniles , and it is difficult to believe that they are all different or abnormal . |
| 23 | It is difficult to believe that a desire to put on a good show at an exhibition could shape a major research programme . |
| 24 | However , it is difficult to believe that this amounts to as much as £30 per hour . |
| 25 | It is difficult to believe that a writer who writes such drivel as does Paul Gallico could be so unpleasantly deluded with grandeur . |
| 26 | Still , it is difficult to believe that either linguistics or psychology has achieved a level of theoretical understanding that might enable it to support a ‘ technology ’ of language teaching . |
| 27 | It is difficult to believe that she was not embalmed and Elizabeth Southwell , a minor courtier , relates how Lord Cecil ordered it to be done and Clapham , in his Elizabeth of England , states that ‘ The Queen 's body was left in a manner alone a day or two after her death and meane persons [ embalmers ] had access to it . ’ |
| 28 | By day , Claxby signal box is warm and friendly and it is difficult to believe that any mysterious events could take place there . |
| 29 | Moreover , it is difficult to believe that anyone who can be as dull as Hoccleve can , when using literary conventions , could suddenly become as lively as he does by merely adopting a new one : the ‘ autobiographical ’ convention . |
| 30 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |