Example sentences of "the [noun sg] believe that the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition the Board believes that the best way to serve shareholders is to keep administration as simple as possible so that the Group can concentrate on its core business and maximise profit growth . ’
2 The Board believes that the increased marketing expenditure now budgeted for strengthening the Waterford brands will contribute to profitable growth in this business .
3 Contrast this with the words of a House of Lords Select Committee considering exactly the same problem : ‘ because of the high proportion [ of homes with polluted tapwater ] and the long-standing nature of the problem , the Committee believe that the two years for compliance with the Directive is wholly unrealistic . ’
4 We are invited by the story-teller to believe that the part-random , part-intended day-to-day course of life would lend itself to discipline , with a beginning , a middle and an end .
5 By creating a more definite starting and finishing point to the season , members of the group believed that the growing trend of out-of-season holidays and short breaks could be accelerated .
6 Having said this , and conscious of the arguments advanced in this Report against excluding non-believers , the Commission believes that the musical director needs to have some Christian commitment .
7 The ‘ country of the Iguanodon restored ’ is very different from Victorian Sussex ; the strange light which picks out the struggling animals also reveals how many tons of animal life the artist believed that the primeval world could support on quite a small area-as later dinosaur pictures always tend to do .
8 The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision .
9 As I have already said , the Government believe that the economic case for the barrage is very strong .
10 The hon. Member for Hornchurch ( Mr. Squire ) and the Secretary of State made it perfectly clear that the Government believe that the fairest and best means of raising local government finance is through a property tax .
11 The organization believes that the new plans could be in breach of European law requiring full environmental impact studies to be carried out .
12 But many doctors around the world believe that the Canadian breast-screening programme is inaccurate .
13 He will probably find his Treasury advisers are far less sanguine : the Treasury believes that the same factors which produced the late 1980s ' consumer boom are now working in reverse , with falling confidence and asset values undermining consumption though incomes are relatively buoyant .
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