Example sentences of "they believe [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well , nearly — it appeared game , set and match to the PFA but either the memory , or the shorthand , of the Football League 's negotiators was faulty because in their letter to clubs , describing what had been agreed , they led them to believe that the second principle had not been conceded .
2 They believed that the real power base lay outside the centres in the social services central offices .
3 That is , they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity .
4 But in fact they stopped well short of this principle , because they believed that the peculiar organization of meaning in poetry led back in the end to the ‘ real ’ world .
5 They believe that the Treasury-held view that a 12% devaluation will translate into 4% extra inflation over two years and 12% extra inflation ( the full impact of the trade-weighted devaluation to date ) over four years is , given the present economic background , highly exaggerated .
6 That is because they believe that the correct way for the House to organise its procedures is to have a timetable motion from the beginning .
7 They believe that the minimum wage could threaten their jobs .
8 The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger .
9 As our General Election rises to its soggy climax , you ought to compare the success of an economy where they believe that the best government is the least government .
10 They believe that the booming export market is not just a temporary product of the recent devaluation but a development that could stick .
11 They believe that the current slaughter policy is a political expedient designed to allow ministers to show that they are doing something to curb food poisoning .
12 Those are all prominent Scottish Conservatives who have made it clear that they believe that the Conservative party should have joined , and even now should still join , the Scottish Constitutional Convention .
13 However , they believe that the whole process depends on the words on the page — and proceeds in phase with them — in ways that the ‘ top-down ’ theorists would not allow ( see , for instance , Laberge and Samuels , 1974 ) .
14 They believe that the ruling class has changed relatively little in the last hundred years .
15 Moreover , they believe that the natural instrument of that change is the House , therefore they seek to increase the power of the House .
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