Example sentences of "believe that [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bliss believed that the most important aspect of a classification scheme was the order of its main classes . |
| 2 | He hoped this strategy would attract foreign investment by multinationals which believed that the more literate people there were , the bigger the market for consumer durables would become . |
| 3 | The inclusion of this statement suggests that , while the theology faculties of Oxford and Cambridge universities remained firmly committed to the doctrines of predestination and assurance , some other Jacobeans , including perhaps James I himself , believed that the more extreme implications of these beliefs needed to be played down in order to make them more palatable to the laity . |
| 4 | During this enforced week , even the faithful and normally encouraging Davidson wrote to tell him that ‘ Every mongrel is yapping , believing that a very tired fox has gone to ground at Chequers , with no fight left in him . ’ |
| 5 | It would be sad if teachers and others were seduced into believing that the most useful projects are those which involve ‘ real-life ’ problems . |
| 6 | I can not help believing that the most discerning public must be interested in this work . |
| 7 | Does the Minister believe that a vitally important stabilisation fund for Russia can be made to work successfully without tackling the problems of food supply in Russian markets , especially when we consider the consequences for money supply and wage inflation ? |
| 8 | The leader may believe that the most important role for them to play is that of a co-ordinator . |
| 9 | Do you believe that the most important resource at your disposal is the staff ? |
| 10 | A user might start by looking for a map of London , when he really wants a map of Camden ; he might believe that the more specific subject ( Camden ) will not be covered independently . |
| 11 | Moreover , it denotes a certain lack of confidence in the criminal process to believe that a totally false allegation would not sooner or later be revealed as such . |
| 12 | It is hard to believe that a more adventurous policy would not have been justified ( even had it led to more mistakes and power cuts at the winter peak ) . |
| 13 | This era of mild concessions to Belorussian culture impressed Belorussians amongst the diaspora abroad who continued to believe that a truly democratic system might yet emerge . |
| 14 | But remember : you have to believe that the seemingly intractable problem can be cracked . |
| 15 | It was difficult to believe that the most careful farmer in the area would lose all his harvest because of a moment 's forgetfulness . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , most of us will continue to believe that the most important goal in the sciences at Stirling is to achieve the correct balance between excellence in teaching and excellence in research , that distinguishes high quality Universities . |
| 17 | Some authorities believe that a really delicate reaction is only possible for the domestic cat at up to 45,000 cycles per second . |
| 18 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 19 | As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said earlier , we believe that the most effective sanctions are imposed by the market , and we shall continue to argue that in the IGC . |
| 20 | The Maritime school acknowledge that the greatest Soviet threat is to Western Europe , but they believe that the most likely threats to British and Western interests lie in the more unstable areas of the world beyond NATO 's boundaries . |
| 21 | Solicitors ' firms believe that the most important changes which have led to improvements in their efficiency are the introduction of new technology and better management systems |
| 22 | At The Royal Bank of Scotland we believe that the most important people in our business are our customers . |
| 23 | Most scholars believe that the more advanced civilizations of this era used rugs mainly for decorative purposes — as wall hangings , bedspreads and covers for seats — and that the use of rugs as floor coverings was evolved by the nomadic tribesmen who ranged the colder , windswept lands of the steppe , tundra and mountain regions of Central Asia . |
| 24 | We believe that the consistently low values of HNO 3 measured inside the vortex in spring ( Fig. 2 ) result from conversion of HNO 3 from the gas to the solid phase , probably accompanied by loss from the atmosphere altogether by sedimentation . |
| 25 | Many wave-energy researchers believe that the consistently unfavourable attitude of the EC towards wave power has its origins in unfavourable assessments which were provided for the Community by the British government . |
| 26 | I would respectfully agree with his description , in relation to dishonest actions , of appropriation as involving an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights , but I believe that the less aggressive definition of appropriation which I have put forward fits the word as used in an honest sense in section 2(1) as well as elsewhere in the Act . |
| 27 | By 1939 it was widely believed that no more wooden aeroplanes would be built and this might have come true if the War had not created shortages of aluminium and of the machinery and skilled men for handling it . |
| 28 | In France and Spain , and to a lesser extent in Britain , it was widely believed that the most important function of a fleet was not to seek out and destroy that of the enemy but to protect the colonies and seaborne trade of the State to which it belonged and capture or harass those of its opponents . |
| 29 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 30 | Indeed , he believes that a very small section of the population , which he calls the business class , now forms a tightly integrated group which dominates British business . |