Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun sg] believe that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction .
2 It would be some comfort to believe that Luke had turned to his old mistress only as second-best …
3 To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP .
4 There is strong evidence to believe that Bamford was representative in another respect : their first child was present at the wedding .
5 Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints .
6 But in this respect too there is good reason to believe that things have recently begun to go seriously wrong :
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