Example sentences of "believe [conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Memoirs he claims feebly he had foreseen the dangers , but believed that with the limited forces available an attack on the Left Bank would have been stopped by the ‘ well-constructed ’ enemy position . |
| 2 | Although there was widespread speculation as to the authenticity of the leaflets , experts believed that for the first time there was fairly solid evidence to show that the group was experiencing internal problems , with the possibility that a moderate faction had appeared to question the cult of leadership of Sendero leader Abimael Guzmán Renoso and his military strategy to bring down the state . |
| 3 | Marx believed that in the highest stage of communism human beings would be able to realize — or actualize — their expressive essence , their ‘ species being ’ ( Geras , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | In 1958 he believed that he was founding a republic that would serve France well for many years to come , but he also believed that in the immediate future his presence was essential to France 's safety and renewal . |
| 5 | Nor were defensive measures in conjunction with the United States entirely ruled out , but the British Chiefs of Staff believed that in the worst eventuality they could hold the Kra Isthmus ( to the north of Malaya ) against the Chinese . |
| 6 | While he shared the fears that the Americans might be tempted to try to take advantage of their current but waning nuclear lead , he believed that in the longer term the prospects might improve . |
| 7 | Marx believed that by the mid-nineteenth century workers in England could not easily be exploited any more than they were already : for example , the working day could not be any further extended . |
| 8 | So even if he believed that from an economic point of view the best decision would be to deny any recovery for emotional injury , he would still ask whether the role of law in encouraging reliance and coordination would be much damaged if he ignored the precedents , and , if it would , whether this loss would be made up in the gains he foresees from the change . |
| 9 | We do n't believe that with a professional firm you can get discounted fees . ’ |
| 10 | We do n't believe that with a professional firm you can get discounted fees |
| 11 | As Mr Day points out : ‘ To the small and medium sized company , all accountants are very much the same and , with the increasing competition from certified and unqualified accountants , I do n't believe that at the lower end of the market chartered accountants will ever get back on the pedestal in the same way they used to be . |
| 12 | He recognized that he could be accused of a conservative , ‘ indeed reactionary ’ , direction for the universities , and of condemning the public sector to second-class status , but ‘ unrepentant I shall believe that in the long run this represents the logical development of both the Robbins principle and the binary policy ’ . |
| 13 | What do we believe if on a certain occasion we have taken it that there exist conditions of exactly the ten types , including a flipping , but the wipers do not start ? |
| 14 | The word unbelief is usually used of a wilful refusal to believe or of a deliberate decision to disobey . |
| 15 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 16 | Representatives at Oatridge believe that under the proposed set-up the college would have to buy services . |
| 17 | It all makes many believe that over the coming months share prices will drop below the levels at which they opened 1991 . |
| 18 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 19 | And in that act we believe that in a spiritual sense that we are lifted up . |
| 20 | And we have done something about it , grasped the mettle , and I believe that in a short while we 're going to solve this problem , and it wo n't be thanks to you and the Conservative Party . |
| 21 | We believe that in the present climate of great openness to the gospel and of great need in people 's broken lives , it is a godly thing to expect growth and to plant accordingly . |
| 22 | However , I believe that in the longer run , as production processes become more automated , Kaplan 's activity-based costing concepts will find their main application at the stage of product design and investment selection , although they might have a wider application in service industries , such as the Health Service , and in the control of non-manufacturing costs . |
| 23 | It 's believed that over the past year tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment has been charged to the council and then sold privately by some of its staff . |
| 24 | Until recently historians have believed that between the opposing parties there emerged around 1317 a so-called Middle Party , which had its beginning in a mission to Avignon in that year . |
| 25 | I have also believed that with the right hand turned sideways , spin produces outswing better than polish , and , with the new ball , I always spun one or two balls in that way during the very first over . |
| 26 | It was believed that under the proposed arrangements brokers would accept deals that they had not ‘ matched ’ through a jobber , with the result that jobbers would probably receive less business and find it more difficult to compete . |
| 27 | However , it is believed that in the virgin planet 's oceans there evolved , by chance , complicated molecules called ‘ proteinoid globules ’ ( or ‘ proteinoid microspheres ’ ) ; alternatively , these molecules might have formed on the slopes of the primordial volcanoes and been washed , by rain , down to the seas . |
| 28 | Instead , he believes that over a five year timescale , Unix systems actually cost more to run than mainframes due to hidden costs from lost productivity . |
| 29 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 30 | Strategist Nicholas Knight believes that on a two-year view shares are a buy . |