Example sentences of "[verb] not believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Gardner , for many years an Oxford luminary , did not believe that the purpose of ‘ English ’ was to turn out critics , any more than it was to produce poets and novelists . |
| 2 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 3 | As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ . |
| 4 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 5 | Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent . |
| 6 | She did not believe that it was going to change the world or that every minute detail was worth the drama and emotionalism that the others seemed to want to pour into it . |
| 7 | In this Marx was similar to many of his contemporaries , such as Spencer or Comte , but he was also very different from them , for he did not believe that the same laws apply to biological evolution as apply to human societies . |
| 8 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 9 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 10 | He did not believe that ‘ this piece of tinkering by the Government will stop Britain becoming the dump of Europe in the 1990s . ’ |
| 11 | When the cultivation process was first announced , many were the sceptics who did not believe that farmed morels would ever be able to match those from the wild . |
| 12 | Helen believed that their acquaintance would ripen into a warm friendship , equalling her affection for Jane Aldis , but did not believe that she and Edward could ever fall in love , so convinced was she of her own ‘ ordinariness ’ . |
| 13 | I did not believe that there were large savings to be made simply from reducing the size of the rail network . |
| 14 | I did not believe that it was a sensible way of making policy . |
| 15 | Romero disapproved of this theology ; he did not believe that the way of Christ called anybody to overthrow governments . |
| 16 | The incident had never been referred to again and Dorothea did not believe that Alida would remember it . |
| 17 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 18 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 19 | He insisted that he did not believe that any of them was right for him , in spite of the huge money that would be on offer . |
| 20 | She made exhaustion into a political virility symbol , and was foolishly critical of those who did not believe that decisions were best taken in a state of prostration . ’ |
| 21 | But overall , NACAB did not believe that the initial resources proposed for the task were sufficient and considerable negotiations would be necessary before the CAB would accept the task . |
| 22 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 23 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |
| 24 | Sri Lankans did not believe that it was morally wrong to convict a known cattle thief on false evidence , and officials often complained that true cases were spoilt by complainants who added additional false evidence . |
| 25 | If I did not believe that the answer to these questions was in each case a resounding yes I would have found it very difficult to give these lectures . |
| 26 | Though Hobson argued that the new imperialism was irrational from the standpoint of the peaceful commercial nation , he did not believe that its source was to be found merely in an irrational aggressiveness on the part of peoples or Governments . |
| 27 | Sinister though their role was , Hobson did not believe that the financiers were out to provoke war between the European powers . |
| 28 | But , given the destructive power of modern weapons , they did not believe that civilization could be protected by war . |
| 29 | On his way home the son did not believe that there was any possibility of his father forgiving him . |
| 30 | A top firm of criminal lawyers told us they did not believe that the chances of a successful prosecution fell below 50 per cent — the CPS 's normal test . |