Example sentences of "[noun] to believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ' . |
| 2 | Up until now there has been no need to believe that neutrinos have any mass at all . |
| 3 | The lack of any precise boundaries between the three closely-interwoven ethnic groups leads most observers to believe that Bosnia 's civil war will know no bounds , with the battle front cutting through villages and streets . |
| 4 | The relative lack of entry barriers and large number of firms appear to lead firms to believe that growth maximisation is a feasible objective , although the barriers to growth outlined above mean that , in practice , the objective is difficult to attain . |
| 5 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 6 | There is strong evidence to believe that Bamford was representative in another respect : their first child was present at the wedding . |
| 7 | So for Rabbit to believe that P is true is just for him to believe P , i.e. to believe that there 's honey . |
| 8 | In the 1960s , the food supply system of Butare was reported to be adequate ; twenty years later we have reasons to believe that Butare 's steadily increasing population is finding it difficult to maintain the grip on familiar supply mechanisms . |
| 9 | He found that there were reasons to believe that bodies were placed supine below the pyre and that the average temperature achieved was about 900° C , but the quantity of fuel required was not determined . |
| 10 | Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose . |
| 11 | Yet the former has sufficient Spanish flavour , as does the Minkus score fur Don Quixote , for audiences to believe that characters really would perform in the way they do to the kind of music provided . |
| 12 | There is a tendency for more junior staff to believe that reports should be made public and that the next report should again deal with the whole school rather than some part or aspect only . |
| 13 | At this early stage in the Odonata 's existence on Earth , such incidents led people to believe that Odonata killed dogs , other animals , and even humans . |
| 14 | ‘ I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies , education and culture for their minds , and dignity , equality and freedom for their spirits . |
| 15 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 16 | Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes ! |
| 17 | Propaganda against the Woodvilles had led the commonalty to believe that Rivers , Vaughan and Grey had plotted to gain control of the as yet uncrowned king . |
| 18 | It must also be remembered , however , that there is every reason to believe that dunes will represent the interaction between local wind and sand conditions and the resultants of short term and long term changes in these conditions . |
| 19 | In a statement Prosecutor-General Gheorghe Robu said there was no longer any reason to believe that Munteanu 's release from " preventive detention " would endanger public order , although Munteanu remained under investigation pending possible charges . |
| 20 | The competition authorities should concern themselves with firms ' conduct only when there is reason to believe that competition is absent ( or would be absent were the conduct permitted ) . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints . |
| 22 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 23 | I have every reason to believe that authorities have made use of these powers . |
| 24 | However , there is no reason to believe that behaviour can not be switched by simpler means such as false cues . |
| 25 | Similarly , there is no reason to believe that matriliny preceded patriliny . |
| 26 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 27 | Unless the applicant for service has good reason to believe that service by simple delivery will be accepted , he should supply a translation , for there is otherwise a risk of delay while the Central Authority reports that that mode of delivery has failed and requests a translation of the document . |
| 28 | There is , however , no reason to believe that fundectomy is associated with increased duodenogastric reflux . |
| 29 | But in this respect too there is good reason to believe that things have recently begun to go seriously wrong : |
| 30 | Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics . |