Example sentences of "[verb] believe that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 6 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 7 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 8 | First let her fear build up : let her come to believe that this prize , this catch of the season , would leave her not only as if she had never met him but somehow spoiled . |
| 9 | Various Parliamentary Committees and the Royal Commission of 1906 seem to have believed that this was possible and ought to be encouraged . |
| 10 | He appears to have believed that this had been conceded in substance ‘ by the admission of all sects and all sexes , unquestioned to the Conference ’ . |
| 11 | Thus , when we are told that everything is ‘ OK ’ we prefer to believe that this is so , although what people say can often contain far deeper and more subtle feelings and personal emotions . |
| 12 | As time goes by children will respond to the consistency of the lesson and come to believe that this is right for them ; the lesson is internalised . |
| 13 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 14 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 15 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |