Example sentences of "believe that [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often these people believed that each of the components of nature — the forest , the rivers , the sky — was occupied and guarded by a jealous god , and they behaved as if that were the case . |
| 2 | In this context , Greenpeace said it believed that some of the sprays were dangerous , and pointed out that they were banned in several countries . |
| 3 | Again , I do not believe that enough of the electorate can be persuaded to act on these grounds alone . |
| 4 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 5 | So so I I I think Mr Mayor that although this debate has erm raised people 's erm eye a little , I do believe that most of the people here have got the wrong end of the stick in what was being proposed right . |
| 6 | Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms . |
| 7 | So much has been written about Monteverdi 's L'Orfeo that it may be difficult to believe that many of the puzzles can be answered through a study of Renaissance humanistic traditions . |
| 8 | It is difficult to believe that many of the prestige projects discussed in Chapter 8 would have been contemplated in the absence of the very high volumes of aid reaching countries for other , more mundane , purposes . |
| 9 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 10 | Thus although much has been achieved , it would be a mistake to believe that most of the problems have been solved . |
| 11 | It is difficult to believe that any of the characters examined by Burdon could be selectively neutral . |
| 12 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 13 | Journals which published it , and editors who included it , ceased to be fully respectable ; this message got through to Crookes , and he stopped his active propaganda , though apparently never ceasing to believe that some of the phenomena he had witnessed , often in distinguished and reliable company , were genuine . |
| 14 | But I mean , were led to believe that some of the people that you see sitting on the streets of Edinburgh begging are actually making a good living out of it ! |
| 15 | Chair , on the recommendations erm on item D , I 'm a bit unhappy about the use of the term ‘ natural ’ disasters , because I believe that many of the disasters that people in Oxford are actually giving money for are man made disasters , particularly matters of international economics and the unfair burden , erm unfair distribution of wealth which places a whole sector of the world in poverty , and I think , you know , you do get a magnificent response from people in Oxford to these charities , and we must be aware that there are a whole number of greater issues involved , and while I hear what you 're saying earlier on about you ca n't take on the problems of the whole world , I think when people are actually giving money to charities for example , like Oxfam , they are often unaware of these issues , and we do have a wider role in making the , joining with organisations like Oxfam in spreading public awareness on these issues . |
| 16 | We also believe that many of the findings are in principle relevant to other areas in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | The Yard and the FBI believe that many of the banks have been used in tax evasion schemes , by fraudsters and to launder money for South American cocaine cartels , which moved to the island after the US authorities applied pressure on the Panamanian banking system . |
| 18 | We believe that many of the arguments and circumstances discussed here were unknown by the authors of the editorial . |
| 19 | I actually believe that one of the areas where the Catholic Church did a lot of damage , is that because of a celibate clergy this obsession with sex has exaggerated it too much . |
| 20 | Editor , — We believe that some of the guidelines on the use of gentamicin in J K Aronson and D J M Reynolds 's article are potentially misleading . |
| 21 | I believe that most of the incidents that I have described will strike a chord with the vast majority of black people . |
| 22 | However , auctioneers believe that most of the applications will be for eight to ten-month-old store cattle . |
| 23 | It was believed that many of the functions of Clark Field — including the provision of transit facilities for special operations forces — were to be transferred to the Cubi Point Naval Air Station at Subic Bay . |
| 24 | Dustin has always believed that some of the cinema 's best moments have come out of improvisation . |
| 25 | It is a purely cosmetic move , but Parker truly believes that many of the mainframe 's problems at the moment are cosmetic . |
| 26 | The AEA believes that some of the waste could still be properly and safely cleared if a decision to this effect was taken soon . |
| 27 | At the other extreme , Prof Patrick Minford believes that most of the UK 's problems are cyclical and will disappear as a spontaneous recovery takes root , filling the Chancellor 's coffers with tax revenues and creating new jobs , so long as the Chancellor has continued to keep inflation under control . |