Example sentences of "the [noun] believe that [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 2 | The empiricists believe that language should be learnable by experience , without any prior knowledge . |
| 3 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 4 | In this situation the Commission believes that consideration should he given to the use of a cantor , or animateur . |
| 5 | The Americans believed that priority should be given to the restructuring of the European economies in the long term whereas the British were preoccupied with what they argued was a short-term dollar crisis . |
| 6 | The government believed that BT could reduce the real price of phone calls in subsequent years for two reasons : unusually good opportunities for cost-saving technical advances , and a previous lethargy as a public industry which it was hoped privatization would dispel . |
| 7 | The government believes that people will love it for abolishing counties like Humberside , which proud Yorkshiremen have always refused to acknowledge . |
| 8 | The doctors believe that ruling should now be changed . |
| 9 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 10 | The agency believes that investors will refuse to buy plants in the polluted region if they will also have to pay for cleaning up the environment . |
| 11 | In September 1939 , when war broke out in the West , almost everyone in our part of the world believed that Mussolini would join in as an ally of Hitler ; in 1936 the German alliance with Italy , the Berlin-Rome Axis , had been established . |
| 12 | It is , perhaps , no surprise that the MPs questioned in the survey believed that industry should place ‘ very high ’ priority on reducing pollution ( 84% ) , conserving energy ( 73% ) and cutting the consumption of scarce resources ( 48% ) . |
| 13 | There are conceptual and methodological problems to overcome , and the need to resist the tendency to believe that QOL can be assessed with a single quickly applied composite measure . |
| 14 | The family believes that Jacqueline used to pave the way for Iain 's escapes by writing to the school , explaining that he was needed at home . |
| 15 | The Palace believes that information could only have come from the princess 's office . |