Example sentences of "[verb] believe [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There can , however , be few less satisfying occupations than that of the professional unmasker of psychic frauds , for , whatever the facts may be , one undeniable fact is that people deeply want to believe these things .
2 Clearly the President 's enemies are itching to believe unsubstantiated stories that could hurt him .
3 If there is more to be achieved in this forum , then I think my clients would like to fight for it because we we do believe that we would we do believe that logic and technical sense stands against the proposal that 's in the structure plan at the moment .
4 He said many schools in the Seventies seemed to believe good spelling could be picked up , not taught .
5 ‘ I would like to believe this number , ’ says Stirling , ‘ but it really needs an independent check . ’
6 ‘ I can see nobody is going to believe this story first time , are they ? ’
7 No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years .
8 Some people in the Labour Party seem to believe that Labour will be better off without the unions .
9 ‘ You do n't want to believe all grandfather says , he 's getting old .
10 Mr George Bochanski , a spokesman for Rohm & Haas , the manufacturer , said : ‘ We continue to believe these products are safe and it is not our job to pre-empt the regulatory bodies in the UK . ’
11 He was starting to believe this stuff .
12 ‘ I would n't have believed two people could be so exactly alike ; you are , of course , identical twins . ’
13 She could not have believed ten years could so alter two people .
14 When taxed about her ‘ bossy ’ or ‘ headmistressy ’ role in the 1983 election she replied : ‘ Yes , I do believe certain things very strongly .
15 So I think that that 's an important point , because I do believe that weight is placed by the government on S S A.
16 In fact I do believe one team was here till about two thirty doing it
17 I really do believe sexual possessiveness is something we should struggle against , no matter how difficult we find it .
18 ‘ I do believe this music , if music it is , is making him ill , ’ Cleo thought .
19 ‘ Inquiries are continuing but we do believe these incidents may be connected , ’ said the spokesman .
20 I do believe more women would broaden the agenda .
21 Who does believe such things anyway ?
22 The world is determined to believe benighted rubbish : he is determined to save it from itself .
23 People living on the Ryeford canal where they were killed believe three months is n't long enough .
24 Refuse to believe any opinion about yourself EXCEPT God 's opinion — that as a human being you are valuable , successful and useful .
25 And it 's believed that magnetite in its er one of its forms lodestone was er the earliest form of compass .
26 It 's believed four vehicles were involved in the chase ; a white pick- up truck , a red Datsun Cherry , and two Saabs .
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