Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hierarchical reductionist believes that carburettors are explained in terms of smaller units which are explained in terms of smaller units … , which are ultimately explained in terms of the smallest of fundamental particles . |
| 2 | Either the Labour party believes that competition is good for efficiency and the quality of service or it does not . |
| 3 | On the contrary , many in the popular movement believe that Fatah has more interest , as one activist put it , in hospitals than in mobile health clinics , in bureaucracy than in local control , and in co-operation with the economic and political notables than with grass-roots movements . |
| 4 | But the monks of the later date believed that Archbishop Becket had intended to confirm , but had been prevented by his death from confirming , their monastic privileges with regard to many matters such as their rights in the consecration of bishops , in the appointment and dismissal of monastic officers , in the distribution of chrism and holy oil for the whole province , in the receipt of various revenues from the Canterbury manors , and the prohibition of any future move of the archbishopric from Canterbury . |
| 5 | Does the Prime Minister believe that pensioners were paid too much in 1979 , or will he express regret at that meanness and raise pensions in line with Labour 's plans ? |
| 6 | The Prime Minister believes that employers should provide it or that women should be able to afford it . |
| 7 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 8 | Unlike the sentimental francophile in Downing Street , the American president believed that France had ceased , for the foreseeable future , to be a great power . |
| 9 | Moreover , economics apart , in the countries of the Old World the middle class believed that workers should be poor , not only because they had always been , but also because economic inferiority was a proper index of class inferiority . |