Example sentences of "[adj] believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
| 2 | Some believe that new plants flourish if their early growth coincides with the growing of a new moon . |
| 3 | Some believe that Flash RAM will replace hard disks in years to come , but at the moment it 's far too expensive . |
| 4 | Some believe that this means turning baseball into a pay-per-view sport , even though the increasing hold of cable television is causing Congress to think again about baseball 's 70-year exemption from America 's antitrust laws . |
| 5 | Should you wish to continue using your mare as a broodmare , you may be advised to put her in foal every year because some believe that this actually makes it easier for a mare to conceive . |
| 6 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 7 | It would be foolish to believe that any group of people can interact without a political undercurrent . |
| 8 | " A person is guilty of an offence it he ( a ) uses towards another person , threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign … which is threatening , abusive or insulting … with intent to cause another to believe that immediate violence will be used … or to provoke ( such ) violence . |
| 9 | A person is guilty of assault if he intentionally or recklessly — ( a ) applies force to or causes an impact on the body of another ; or ( b ) causes another to believe that any such force or impact is imminent , without the consent of the other or , where the act is likely or intended to cause personal harm , with or without consent . |
| 10 | Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery . |
| 11 | Although monitored allocations of the kind suggested above are the only way to ensure that library policy is translated into practice , it would be unrealistic to believe that all authorities manage their budgets in this way . |
| 12 | However , given current UK time costs , it is unrealistic to believe that many listeners will hear a given commercial many times . |
| 13 | Er so we are all very keen to see this get these extra fire fighters but as he has n't identified the source for which they could pay more , this believes that fifty thousand pounds which slices , there is a good way of doing it and suggest that that 's the way we should do it . |
| 14 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 15 | By the close of that decade even writers like Thackeray , who are content to believe that all is well in the other nation , are none the less keenly aware of the divide — though he sees no reason to cross it — between a gentleman and his servants , ‘ who live with us all our days and are strangers to us : so strong custom is , and so pitiless the distinction between class and class ’ . |
| 16 | On a raw spring day at Shingle Street last week , it was easy to believe that this tiny hamlet held some great mystery . |
| 17 | It would be easy to believe that both churches were imposed on the French as a punishment . |
| 18 | Those who have it will be better at forming relationships of all sorts because they do not find it impossible to believe that other people could actually respect them and care for them . |
| 19 | The complexity of modern European economies makes it impossible to believe that rural community self-sufficiency can be achieved in isolation from urban and industrial economy . |
| 20 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 21 | whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked . |
| 22 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence ( i.e. immediate unlawful violence against him or another ) will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 26 | It is , for example , quite mistaken to believe that all farmers are hostile towards environmentalism . |
| 27 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 28 | The ideological points are still there but it 's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight . |
| 29 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 30 | I find it hard to believe that such a plain omission was not deliberate , but here maybe is a matter for consideration by Lautro , S.I.B . |