Example sentences of "[verb] believe [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the companies appear to believe that further productivity increases were possible in the audit . |
| 2 | ‘ Many of us truly want to believe that money-making schemes are genuine , even if we harbour some doubts . ’ |
| 3 | But the fact that we should now have come to believe that such a society might be both possible and desirable is certainly interesting . |
| 4 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 5 | Although most educated men were predisposed to believe that white-skinned , richly clothed Europeans like themselves must belong to a species altogether different from that of the dark-skinned , naked savages described by the traveller-ethnographers , there was the awkward fact that the book of Genesis declares that the whole of mankind is descended from Noah . |
| 6 | Believers very often cease to believe because such suffering makes them no longer able to accept the goodness of God . |
| 7 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 8 | Only if the Westminster Government and its back-benchers are made to believe that this continuing insult to a noble and valuable aspect of Scotland 's heritage will cost them crucial votes will they even begin to take serious notice . |
| 9 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 10 | Garway was a staunch Royalist , who nevertheless , like his early associate John Vaughan , seemed to believe that constant vigilance had to be exercised to prevent the loss of England 's liberties or the wasting of its wealth . |
| 11 | In other words the tippee must , first , obtain from an individual , information which he knows to be unpublished price sensitive information ; secondly , he must know that the individual is a ‘ connected individual ’ within the meaning of the legislation ; thirdly , he must know or have reasonable cause to believe that that individual holds the information by virtue of being so connected ; and finally , he must know or have reasonable cause to expect that that individual should not have disclosed the information save for the proper performance of that individual 's duties . |
| 12 | If an order for the child 's attendance is not complied with or the court has reasonable cause to believe that this will be the case , it may seek police assistance . |
| 13 | Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms . |
| 14 | However , Strawson goes on to suggest that the transformation in our attitudes which would be needed if we ever came to believe that all our actions had this character is beyond our capacities . |
| 15 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
| 16 | Indeed , social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution . |
| 17 | Journals which published it , and editors who included it , ceased to be fully respectable ; this message got through to Crookes , and he stopped his active propaganda , though apparently never ceasing to believe that some of the phenomena he had witnessed , often in distinguished and reliable company , were genuine . |
| 18 | And I kept telling him , yeah , Oliver , but the day that , you know , some Nicaraguan unity group appears and it 's evident that it 's got everybody in it … that 's the day I 'll begin to believe that this thing has a future . |
| 19 | They are polytheistic in that they seem to believe that many gods exist , but monotheistic in that they command obedience to only one of these many gods . |
| 20 | From my recent discussions with Chris Harris in the European Liaison Unit I am lead to believe that private sector investment in qualifying projects is eligible for grant assistance from the EC , but that the grant can not be paid to a private sector company direct . |
| 21 | If the subordinate members of society can be persuaded to believe that those who dominate have a right to do so , and that those who have great material advantage have a right to it , then they are very unlikely to challenge or threaten the privileged . |
| 22 | I happen to believe that many of them are very well documented , even proved . |
| 23 | Although SAVE believes that alternative uses are possible for most types of buildings , including churches , the Holy Name was an exception and our fears for its future increased with rumours of purchase offers from McDonald 's . |
| 24 | SAVE believes that modern architecture and planning is producing an environment that is not only a visual disgrace — a judgment with which future generations may conceivably disagree — but is becoming an economic and ecological nonsense as well . |
| 25 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 26 | Children tend to believe that those adults around them are all-wise and all-powerful and it follows that whatever these adults say must be true . |
| 27 | Even when presented with photographs showing obvious emaciation from starvation , the sufferer from anorexia may comply with forced feeding through intravenous or naso-gastric infusion in hospital but still continue to believe that this is all a lot of fuss and that other people are the ones who really have problems . |
| 28 | John and Elizabeth Newson , authors of a report into the extent of parental punishment in the UK published yesterday , say : ‘ The majority of British parents interviewed seems to believe that physical punishment is an inevitable and probably necessary aspect of ordinary child upbringing . ’ |
| 29 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 30 | One would therefore have to believe that many or most of the observed particles such as gluons or quarks are not really elementary , as they seem at the moment , but that they are bound states of the fundamental N = 8 particles . |