Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 2 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 3 | But it takes a supreme act of faith to believe that everything will be ready on time . |
| 4 | It requires a lot of faith to believe that such questioning will actually be recognized , liked and rewarded . |
| 5 | Something that starts out so tiny must have a lot of faith to believe that it can become something big . |
| 6 | George Eliot of course believed that … |
| 7 | Some 50% of Britons and 38% of Germans believed that Mr Reagan 's foreign policy had increased the dangers of war in Europe . |
| 8 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |
| 9 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 10 | Most users of search believe that , on the whole , headhunters do a good job , and that the industry is effectively self-regulating because , given the grapevine spread of information , poor work would quickly result in loss of business . |
| 11 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 12 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 13 | Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Evolution at the University of Miami believe that the creation of life may have been quite rapid by evolutionary standards , simplicity quite quickly becoming complexity . |
| 14 | A section of opinion believes that the emphasis on the Green Belt has obscured the major threat to the traditional British countryside which lies in the inappropriate development of small country towns . |
| 15 | Whether marginal or not , 55 per cent of DGMs believe that a " market is necessary to get the benefits of the purchaser–provider split " , while nearly one-third do not . |
| 16 | Clearly therefore a bare majority of DGMs believe that at least the threat of competition is necessary to exert leverage , even if , as the case studies show , they do not contemplate moving much business from their main providers . |
| 17 | In conclusion , although it is difficult to foresee the tide of interest and activity being turned back in the NHS , and a majority of DGMs believe that the new system has already delivered quality improvements ( Appleby et al. |
| 18 | However , scientists from the University of Chicago believe that theropods and ornithopods seem to have had brains relatively larger ( body mass for body mass ) than reptiles , hinting at mammalian-like complex behaviour . |
| 19 | Around 60% of participants believed that laws covering industrial pollutants and effluents , and recycling , were not tough enough , and virtually all thought that industry should place a high priority on cutting pollution and conserving energy . |
| 20 | The woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years , and probably suffered from haemophilia , touched the cloak of Jesus believing that this was all she had to do to be healed . |
| 21 | of industrialists believed that a Labour victory at the next election would be bad for the economy ? |
| 22 | It would be a contradictory state of affairs to believe that higher education could maintain one kind of culture within itself and could underpin a quite different kind of culture within society at large : there could not be any fundamental incongruity between these two cultural functions of higher education . |
| 23 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 24 | i As the new voluntary agreement on tobacco advertising is about to be published , a survey by the market research group Mintel has revealed that 61% of Britons believe that tobacco advertising should not be allowed . |
| 25 | This type of suicide believes that he will survive his own death , witness the discovery of his own body , and participate in the reactions of others towards his death . |
| 26 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 27 | Nor were defensive measures in conjunction with the United States entirely ruled out , but the British Chiefs of Staff believed that in the worst eventuality they could hold the Kra Isthmus ( to the north of Malaya ) against the Chinese . |
| 28 | Certainly the majority of people believed that the USA was right to try to prevent a Communist take-over in South Vietnam . |
| 29 | Erm sixty six percent of people believe that the people you vote for say they 'll do things for you but once they 're in they forget what they 've said . |
| 30 | The House of Lords believed that a period of exclusivity would be valid and binding on the vendor provided that consideration passed between the parties , that the terms of the period were certain and the parties intended to be bound . |