Example sentences of "[adj] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few believed that war could now be prevented , and hardly anyone understood that the real issue in Moscow was not whether Britain and Russia could prevent war by agreeing on a joint policy of resistance , but whether Stalin could be persuaded not to make a separate peace with Hitler . |
| 2 | Some believe that Jacobitism was a fairly significant force both within the Tory party and in society at large ( especially north of the border ) , so that at the time of the Hanoverian succession there was a realistic chance that a Jacobite coup might succeed . |
| 3 | The end result is that some believe that retaliation against ‘ the other side ’ is the only protection they have . |
| 4 | The end result is that some believe that retaliation against ‘ the other side ’ is the only protection they have . |
| 5 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 6 | It is unrealistic to believe that warning labels will do anything to reduce alcohol abuse . |
| 7 | Where most saw atoms with void space between them in the manner of Newton and Dalton , Faraday by the 1840s believed that matter was made up of mere point centres of force . |
| 8 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |
| 9 | Even if the defendant himself can plausibly say that he did not intend to use violence , it is sufficient if he uses the language or behaviour in a situation where the addressee is likely to believe that violence will be used against him either by the speaker or by other persons . |
| 10 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 11 | It is similarly naive to believe that management who have relied on these external services will necessarily be able to control them when they are brought in-house |
| 12 | Everyone began to listen carefully to the news bulletins on the wireless and to buy newspapers as soon as they were printed , yet people found it hard to believe that war could really happen . |
| 13 | ‘ It is hard to believe that poverty stalks the land when even the poorest fifth of families with children spend nearly a tenth of their income on alcohol and tobacco ’ , was Mr Moore 's dismissive conclusion . |
| 14 | Since there is no guarantee that the behaviour of participants during the life of a co-operative R&D venture will mesh with their initial goals , or that new , anticompetitive restrictions will not be added to what started out as a pro-competitive co-operative R&D agreement , it is hard to believe that immunity from prosecution is an attractive policy option in the absence of continuous monitoring by the antitrust authorities . |
| 15 | Many believe that minority group members have better insight , more commitment and greater rapport with similarly affected people than does the general population ( Shearer , 1981 ) and that people with extensive professional training do not necessarily help those who are disabled ( McKnight , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | For having encouraged us all to believe that Labour was going to win , the media will now encourage us all to believe that something astonishing must have happened to stop it winning . |
| 17 | The Mental Health Act 1983 's exclusion of compulsory admissions for alcohol detoxification alone has led many to believe that alcohol related mental health problems are outside the Act , but this is not the case . |
| 18 | For those believing in molecules of memory , the message is in the bell and its unique properties ; for those believing that memory is a system property of the brain , the bell is merely a part — albeit an important one — of the system , and to understand the message one must read the wiring diagram , not listen to the sound of the bell ringing . |
| 19 | Yet Russians with bank accounts abroad will probably be among the most reluctant to believe that theory can be turned into practice . |
| 20 | Not all Chinese believe that education should be part of the market economy . |
| 21 | ‘ Chi ’ means ‘ vital air ’ and the Chinese believe that breathing exercises allow this vital air to permeate the blood , exercising along the way all the important organs of the body , including the tiny nerve cells and veins . |
| 22 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 23 | Lisa was inclined to believe that advice was worth following . |
| 24 | As long as the attitudes to women 's status and obligations and the division of labour within the family remain unchanged , it is difficult to believe that gender will be irrelevant to politics . |
| 25 | I find it difficult to believe that intervention is of necessity harmful . |
| 26 | True , the religious believed that death was only physical ; but I had never allowed my instinctive religious feelings to come to the surface . |
| 27 | Ten out of 14 believed that poverty and crime were linked . |
| 28 | One is not obliged to believe that Freemantle was a good poet . |
| 29 | a good deal of egocentricity and naivety is necessary to believe that man has taken refuge in a single one of the historical or geographical modes of his existence , when the truth about man resides in the system of their differences and common properties . |
| 30 | Allied believes that beauty must stay that way . |