Example sentences of "[noun] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 2 | When the course began in 1976 its tutors believed that content was more important than process . |
| 3 | Because Key believed that motherhood brought women their greatest fulfilment , her work was widely quoted with approval , although her defence of ‘ bachelor motherhood ’ for the unfortunate ‘ surplus ’ women achieved a notoriety similar to Grant Allen 's apparent advocacy of ‘ free love ’ in The Woman Who Did . |
| 4 | Third parties believed that Unkiar-Skelessi marked a further stage in Russia 's southward advance . |
| 5 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 6 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 7 | Those who support the cultural deprivation theory tend to believe that education can play a large part in remedying social inequality , while Marxists believe that education is an essential part of the process of reproducing inequality . |
| 8 | But since Marxists believe that capitalism as a social system is doomed , it follows that capitalism can not he rationally planned for ever . |
| 9 | In this respect Fforde believes that individualism was not just a particular strand of the Conservative tradition , but was the Conservative tradition , and that ‘ Tory Centrism , anti-capitalism , or paternalist interventionism ’ are ‘ phantoms of the historiographical imagination ’ . |
| 10 | McLuhan believes that writing fosters " linear thinking " : " The fragmenting of activities , our habit of thinking in bits and parts — " specialism " — reflected the step-by-step departmentalizing process inherent in the technology of the alphabet … |
| 11 | Packer believes that nepotism plays no role in the explanation of these events because the males of a troop , having transferred into it from elsewhere , must be only very distant relatives of one another . |
| 12 | This administration believes that government has been attempting to do too much . |
| 13 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 14 | Argan believed that art belonged to all men , which is why he battled in defence of the cultural heritage from the dark days of Fascism — to the last days of his life , proof of his commitment to criticism as an instrument of conscience . |
| 15 | Aristotle believed that matter was continuous , that is , one could divide a piece of matter into smaller and smaller bits without any limit : one never came up against a grain of matter that could not be divided further . |
| 16 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 17 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 18 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 19 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 20 | Thus , in Wiseman v. Borneman the Inland Revenue Commissioners believed that part of the Finance Act concerning share transactions was applicable to the case before them ; the taxpayer objected and entered a statutory declaration setting out his reasons . |
| 21 | These philosophers and reformers believed that promotion of happiness could safely be entrusted to men and women themselves , without divine intervention , since they were innately good ; but some had misgivings about how to hold onto Christian charity . |
| 22 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 23 | Lenin believed that bureaucracy would become redundant after a proletarian revolution which would provide for the instant revocability of every civil servant , the reduction of official salaries and the simplification of control and accounting functions in society . |
| 24 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 25 | In contrast , the tax cut enthusiasts believe that income tax is a major distortion and labour supply is very elastic . |
| 26 | Teachers of problem solving believe that problem solving can be taught , that it helps people in solving problems and that this is a good thing . |
| 27 | Conservatives believe that tax cuts will lead to greater incentives and initiative , thereby creating an enterprise culture in which the benefits of growth will ultimately spread to everyone . |
| 28 | Margaret Meek ( 1982 , p.26 ) says that ‘ The parents ’ role … is to encourage the child to believe that reading is a worthwhile and pleasurable thing to do , that literacy is within his grasp , and to provide the means for his enjoyment and success ' . |
| 29 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 30 | Almost everyone in Britain and the United States who has any acquaintance with law believes that Parliament and Congress and the various state legislatures make law and that past judicial decisions must be given credit in later ones . |