Example sentences of "[noun] believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After all , many defendants believe that this offers a much better prospect of acquittal , and there is some research evidence to support this view ( Vennard , 1995 ) . |
| 32 | However hard a head or a governing body may try to remain outside the arena of competition , the insistence of parent interests and community awareness and the effect on even the price of houses in a local estate agent 's listings will continue to make sure that parents believe that clever children , as measured in the national assessment , are produced by good schools and by good teachers . |
| 33 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 34 | Conservatives believe that high standards in education and training are the key to personal opportunity and national success . |
| 35 | Such a version of pluralism would assert that pluralists believe that all citizens have a chance to become politically active through individual and group action . |
| 36 | The Institute believes that sole practice should continue to be permitted , but with extra safeguards . |
| 37 | Notwithstanding the fact that , according to the document , The Future Value of our Qualification , issued at the same time as the Manifesto , the Institute believes that chartered accountants want it to ‘ safeguard the reputation of the profession and to enhance the value of their qualification ’ and ‘ to concentrate on helping them succeed professionally ’ , at the present time practising members are concerned primarily with their practices ' cash flow and profitability , and the threat of litigation . |
| 38 | This institute believes that some form of National Statistics Council has a role to play but with the following provisos : 1 . |
| 39 | County Council believes that this advice and guidance is synonymous with the view that is taken that development of the open countryside will in fact represent the exception rather than the rule and that new development would not normally be permitted . |
| 40 | Given the present public concern about the effectiveness of auditing , the committee believes that appropriate legislation is required as a matter of urgency . |
| 41 | Consequently the committee believes that non-executive directors will not be perceived by the public as being independent of the executive directors , hence the need for the audit review panel . ’ |
| 42 | The Committee believes that this is the first time a group of solicitors , experts in their field , have considered the legal feasibility of an anti-discrimination law to help people with disabilities work . |
| 43 | Not least was the announcement that Fiat will build a car plant in the Soviet Union , a move described candidly by one Fiat official in the Guardian : ‘ Fiat believes that Eastern Europe will become the new Korea of the motor industry , except this time cheap production will be available on our doorstep , ’ he said . |
| 44 | I quote from the declared aims and policies of CND : ’ CND believes that British independent nuclear weapons and American nuclear bases and weapons in Britain do nothing to increase the security of Britain and should be unilaterally and unconditionally rejected and removed . ’ |
| 45 | The AEA believes that some of the waste could still be properly and safely cleared if a decision to this effect was taken soon . |
| 46 | In fact the US Agriculture Undersecretary believes that European sugar policies cost less-developed nations about two billion dollars a year in lost export earnings . |
| 47 | Grassmuck believes that this communication barrier between parents and children led to a series of killings of parents by their sons . |
| 48 | Donald Gould believes that some heroic attempts to save life are misguided |
| 49 | A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders . |
| 50 | Mindful of recent events in Dakar , these officials believed that Allied interests would best be served by maintaining a working relationship with Vichy administrators . |
| 51 | Many officials believed that these disturbances were prompted by needless interference with traditional society . |
| 52 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 53 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 54 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 55 | Many Christians believe that one important role of the priest is to ‘ represent ’ Jesus at the Eucharist . |
| 56 | Environmental officials believe that some 3 billion used tyres are currently stockpiled around the USA . |
| 57 | Fisheries officials believe that this could result in the rivers being permanently lacking in some species of fish , and this in turn poses a serious threat to the fishing communities on the river banks . |
| 58 | Individuals believe that these outcomes have positive value for them ( valence ) . |
| 59 | However , auctioneers believe that most of the applications will be for eight to ten-month-old store cattle . |
| 60 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |