Example sentences of "believe that the [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 | It would be sad if teachers and others were seduced into believing that the most useful projects are those which involve ‘ real-life ’ problems . |
| 5 | I can not help believing that the most discerning public must be interested in this work . |
| 6 | The leader may believe that the most important role for them to play is that of a co-ordinator . |
| 7 | Do you believe that the most important resource at your disposal is the staff ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But remember : you have to believe that the seemingly intractable problem can be cracked . |
| 10 | It was difficult to believe that the most careful farmer in the area would lose all his harvest because of a moment 's forgetfulness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | At The Royal Bank of Scotland we believe that the most important people in our business are our customers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She believes that the most efficient way for pupils to learn mathematics is by being told what to do , and preferably by a teacher , rather than a textbook . |
| 24 | Sixty years after Hitler 's Enabling Act of 23 March , 1933 , finally consigned German parliamentary democracy to the dustbin and consolidated the Nazis in power , Sibylle Kaufmann believes that the most important thing she gained from growing up under dictatorship was a heightened sense of spiritual awareness : ‘ Materialistically , everything looked so fine , on the outer side . |