Example sentences of "[verb] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly because they were unsure about the outcome , partly because they were not able to segment the market with precision , and partly because the account executives in their advertising agencies , in common with many media directors , still appear to believe that prosperity is equated with youth . |
| 2 | Conservative Members desperately want to believe that family breakdown is the cause , but the increase in family breakdowns is much smaller than the dramatic increase in homelessness . |
| 3 | Growing up among the tough men of Cornwall , Harry had come to believe that popularity was all ; that it could be bought with success , and that success could be got by a closed fist and a big voice . |
| 4 | I wondered if she could see into my mind , and I did n't care , for during that one short walk I had come to believe that Lili would not harm me . |
| 5 | Scarlet , when aware that she was consciously asking her friend for advice and support , felt guilty , for she had come to believe that advice and support were commodities for which you paid professionals , rather as you paid prostitutes for love and bought your vegetables instead of growing them yourself . |
| 6 | The ergonomist has to believe that work is a good thing and that to conduct it efficiently is always better than to conduct it inefficiently . |
| 7 | But Joyce has never stopped believing that peace will come to the grim back streets of Belfast . |
| 8 | It follows , too , for anyone who refuses to believe that universalizability is a necessary element in the meaning of ‘ ought ’ as opposed to the meaning of ‘ all ’ , that such a normative system , replete with content flowing from the ‘ millenary labour ’ of many heads , hearts and hands , constantly in flux , but also sufficiently determinate to guide conduct , may be regarded as a socially valid positive system of morality . |
| 9 | The counselling and procuring provisions are contained in s.1(7) and stipulate that it is an offence for , inter alios , any of the above mentioned insiders to counsel or procure any other person ( ie not only individuals ) to deal in the relevant securities , if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that person would deal in them on a recognized exchange . |
| 10 | Unreasonable refusal of access to a child in the course of inquiries is in itself a ground for making an emergency protection order where the applicant has reasonable cause to believe that access is required as a matter of urgency ( s44(1) ( b ) and see p149 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if I 'd believed that story when you told it to me , I certainly would n't believe it now . |
| 12 | Every Member I interviewed believed that television had increased public interest in Parliament and most thought it had improved public understanding of how the Commons works , It is even more important , however , that the House should be televised so that the public can follow the actual matters being debated in Parliament . |
| 13 | Once the white hanging bells open in the weak sunshine of a late February day , we can begin to believe that winter is nearly over . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe I 've been too long with this screwy outfit ; I 'm beginning to believe that stuff they are handing out from the New York office . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Many anti-Darwinians denied the significance of adaptation , preferring to believe that evolution was driven by forces arising from within the organism , independent of any changes in the environment . |
| 17 | Taught to believe that sex was shameful , they were denied the spiritual experience of sex passion which involved the transfiguration of the lower by the higher elements . |
| 18 | Post-war America was in favour of a united Europe to stand more firmly against the Soviet Union , and successive American administrations grew irritable with the Europeans for failing to believe that unity in Europe could be as simple as it was in America . |
| 19 | Just so , there are certain levels of understanding in coming to believe that Christianity is true , and these may bear no relation to the ‘ stages ’ by which we have come to faith . |
| 20 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 21 | No-one in their right minds would have believed that Labour wanted to abolish heterosexuality or promote AIDS , but such was the level of fear and ignorance about homosexuality that these ideas could be aired . |
| 22 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 23 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 24 | It seems odd that the coal pfennig has been given the green light by Brussels when we have been continually led to believe that state aid for our coal industry would not be allowed . |
| 25 | They had n't wanted to believe that Kosi , Lars , Rachel and the rest were dead . |
| 26 | They knew Richard Neville not as some hard-done-by humorist but as the author of the paperback Playpower which became the handbook of the international drop-outs and bemused pot-smoking youngsters , persuaded to believe that society was rotten , life was too tough and the odds too heavily stacked against them — the best thing to do was to drop out and bum around . |
| 27 | If , as I have argued , neurophysiological explanations of mind explain nothing and if physiological observations give us no purchase on the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind , how has the myth become so powerful that many people within and outside the scientific community do believe that neurophysiology has advanced ( or will advance ) our understanding of mind and the mind-body relationship ? |
| 28 | Ultimately I do believe that life is priceless and a great joy and that view is bound to seep through into my work . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd have to be obtuse to do so , ’ she flung at him , then changed the subject abruptly by saying , ‘ I really do believe that Ling is a wise man . ’ |
| 30 | On the other hand , I do believe that English speaking referees who are exposed exclusively to the opinions of a mischievous English press are likely to be adversely influenced . |