Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people in the West fondly believe that if Russia is denied high technology its future political activities will somehow be constrained . |
| 2 | Ken sincerely believed that a separate-bedroom marriage would be the perfect relationship with someone for whom he cared so much . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Scott clearly believes that the upper classes have a disproportionate amount of power given the tiny percentage of the population that they make up . |
| 4 | Does Papert really believe that , without radical political steps , robot turtles can bring rich rewards in dealing with technologically advanced nations ? |
| 5 | Furthermore , to imagine that he 's repeating what Freud said , and claiming that Freud really believed that our sense of guilt about incest and murdering relatives was the result of , of socialization is again simply not true . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But Pound with his invaluable naïveté really believed that the United States was ‘ a land of opportunity ’ ; that his nation 's glory was all in the future , and would be achieved if only Americans would sort out those achievements of European culture ( and of non-European cultures also ) which were worth their emulating and trying to surpass . |
| 8 | Hardy firmly believed that it was his duty to face up to the unpleasant aspects of life , if by so doing he could show sympathy with his fellow man and , perhaps , after all , offer hope for improvement in the future . |
| 9 | However , Rhys firmly believes that some regulation on the use of large cars would be prudent through increased petrol duty . |
| 10 | Bede too believed that the time of Doomsday is concealed from mankind . |
| 11 | The Commissioners still believed that the Act applied and referred the statutory declaration , a certificate and counter-statement setting out their views on the taxpayer 's statutory declaration , to a tribunal which would decide whether there was a prima facie case for proceeding . |
| 12 | Many members of the Bar still believe that the European Community is , as one Tory MP put it very recently , airy-fairy . |
| 13 | The basis for this offer is the fact known by the cops and the criminals that the judge in the case has a history of giving reduced sentences and often clemency to guilty criminals who truly show remorse ; the judge also believes that co-operation with the police is proof that a criminal regrets his behaviour . |
| 14 | It must be taken that the Commissioners honestly believed that the defendant was personally liable , and really intended to take legal proceedings against him , as they had done against Goble . |
| 15 | Pointing to the lack of decent recreational facilities m the slums , Butterworth also believed that ‘ it is pointless to denounce street evils , gang hooliganism or to mourn the absence of team spirit in poorer areas … |
| 16 | The committee also believed that while corporate management had implications for both councillors and officers , the structure applicable to one side was not applicable to the other . |
| 17 | The committee also believes that time should be set aside for the trial disposal and subsequent recovery of radioactive waste ( which is the practice in the United States and Canada ) . |
| 18 | By the time they had reached Morocco , the Shah and the Queen both believed that Giscard had betrayed them personally at Guadeloupe . |
| 19 | Fabians also believed that public welfare had a vital role to play in integrating society , alleviating social conflict and promoting the expression of altruistic sentiments countering , if partially , the atomism , selfishness and inequalities of capitalist market economies . |
| 20 | Trist also believed that the primary task of management was to relate the organisation to its environment . |
| 21 | Forest ecologists increasingly believe that the source of most acid is natural , not industrial . ’ |
| 22 | Almost always they can be modernized and adapted : the developer simply believes that a new building will be worth more . |
| 23 | His argument may have turned out indecisively , but Halley evidently believed that scientific data were relevant to theological questions . |
| 24 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 25 | Your Directors firmly believe that the proposed addition to Article 93 is not in the interests of the general body of shareholders . |
| 26 | It is in this inherited conception of the equality of all human beings that the people of the Lake District provided a contrast to the rest of England ; Wordsworth therefore believed that ‘ humble and rustic ’ men were not yet corrupted . |
| 27 | The sufferer genuinely believes that he or she is normal and that the world has problems and so do the people who " run " the world . |
| 28 | Arnold genuinely believed that the transmission of a common culture could help unite the classes and promote fellow-feeling . |
| 29 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard decided — or were persuaded by independent software vendors — that a common kernel was not a necessity for competing with NT , which is why COSE does not address the issue , even though some observers still believe that the perceived lack of a common Unix kernel will hand Bill Gates a propaganda advantage . |
| 30 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |