Example sentences of "believe that [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , they believed that unless the privileged sections of the community were prepared to adapt and to " improve " , waves of dangerous and uncontrollable innovation would completely drown the existing social order . |
| 2 | He believed that once the real heart and living impulse at its core were discerned , it had validity and significance as expressing the nature of man himself . |
| 3 | The rabbis believed that when the Holy Spirit was with drawn from Israel at the end of the prophetic era , God left them with a substitute , the bath qol , which means literally ‘ daughter of the voice ’ or ‘ echo ’ . |
| 4 | The trained bands , which were under the control of the Tory-Anglican lieutenancy , and which during the Exclusion Crisis had been efficient in suppressing the activities of Whig and Nonconformist crowds , refused to act against the crowds who gathered to prevent people from attending the mass , believing that since the professed purpose was " only pulling down Popery " , they could not " in conscience hinder " . |
| 5 | Moscow underestimated the phenomenon , believing that if the hard core of ‘ provocateurs ’ were allowed to emigrate the vast majority would stay . |
| 6 | This is referred to as the principle of actualism by Douglas ( 1980 ) citing Russian geologists Gorshkov and Yakushova and , whereas it is rejected by Douglas and also by Ollier ( 1979,1981 ) , it is possible to believe that although the past development of an area may not be explicable in terms of the processes at present operating in that area , nevertheless study of present processes may collectively help to illuminate the past . |
| 7 | For many years , a number of dentists seemed to believe that if a little fluoride is good for you , then more must be better . |
| 8 | SIR — I believe that if a current inventory of known insect and other species was available , descriptive work might be more efficient than the current 20 per cent wastage rate ( due to synonymy ) . |
| 9 | Members of the security sources believe that if the new tape is genuine , then the phone call made by Prince Charles must have been deliberately bugged . |
| 10 | Eisenhower and Dulles both believed that since no Iranian Army could ever resist an actual Soviet invasion , the Shah should not build up a vast Army but should depend on US guarantees . |
| 11 | In Britain it has long been believed that if a black cat crosses your path or enters your house it will bring you good fortune . |
| 12 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things like icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 13 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things such as icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 14 | The Christian believes that since the Christian teaching is true , it will be more useful and more relevant than that of any other system . |
| 15 | Pete Roche now believes that if the Scottish Miners Union leader Mick McGahey — a communist who supported the then official party policy of ‘ nuclear power with copper-bottomed safety ’ — had encouraged greater trade union involvement , a more substantial opposition could have been mounted . |