Example sentences of "believe [conj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basil believed that students of all ages should be presented with a strong personal challenge , but with the warm support of a sensitive and perceptive teacher . |
| 2 | The judge indicated that he believed that police of all ranks had been involved in a cover-up of the initial investigation of the massacre and called for a public inquiry . |
| 3 | We grow up to believe that doctors in white coats prescribe effective pain-relieving tablets and if the situation is serious they give intravenous injections . |
| 4 | In recent weeks the whole issue of prison conditions has been pushed to the forefront of public debate , following reports that Home Secretary Michael Howard is said to believe that conditions in many prisons are ‘ too lax ’ . |
| 5 | I can not understand why some Opposition Members — we do not know whether this is the official Opposition Front-Bench policy — appear to believe that profits from private medicine must be preserved for private companies and not made available to the NHS to improve care for NHS patients . |
| 6 | Unidroit , for example , goes to considerable trouble , by means of consultations with representative international organizations and by questionnaires to specialists and to governments which in turn consult their national organizations , to establish that those practising in the field in question believe that differences in national laws create a problem and that harmonization would bring benefits . |
| 7 | If terrorists believe that incidents like this morning 's will deflect our policy on Northern Ireland , they are mistaken . |
| 8 | According to my sample of Hull University students , the dreams of Joseph , the Magi , and so on may have been literally true ( according to over half of those questioned ) , but it seems that it would be naive to conclude that they really believe that communications of this sort are still " possible " — that is , presumably they happened in the Bible by some unique divine intervention which will never be repeated . |
| 9 | As an organisation we believe that children in these circumstances may well need support but they 're also a real resource to our society , an investment in children 's welfare and children 's education is a sound investment in the country 's future . |
| 10 | Indeed , I believe that inklings of this understanding , ‘ Intimations of the Infinite ’ , are experienced by many of us at least once in a lifetime and are available to all if we can simply open our hearts to the inward life which is calling us , but is obscured by the continuous dazzle and activity of our own superficial minds and senses . |
| 11 | Perrin believes that fishermen in many countries catch dolphins in set-nets , but are not required to report the deaths to fisheries authorities . |