Example sentences of "[prep] believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make no bones about believing that this should always be at the lowest possible level , making me an enthusiastic decentraliser and a sceptical centraliser — whether to Whitehall and Brussels , or Westminster and Strasbourg . |
| 2 | That remains the best reason for believing that continental Europe will remain a region of growth in a faltering world economy . |
| 3 | However , with faster hardware likely to be on the market in the near future and the possibility of the emergence of parallel GIS machines , there is some justification for believing that extra effort is both worth while and acceptable . |
| 4 | The search must be no more than reasonably required for the purposes of discovering such evidence and there must be reasonable grounds for believing that such evidence will be found . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 7 | In my judgment , Parliament intended to and did provide a simple and expeditious method of dealing with a person arrested without warrant by a constable who had reasonable grounds for believing that that person had broken a condition of his bail , or was likely to break a condition of his bail , or was likely to fail to surrender to custody . |
| 8 | erm now the strongest reason , I think , for believing that that is not the case is that it does n't come from the fossil record , it comes simply from looking at organisms today . |
| 9 | This reflects two German habits : an old one , an academic tradition that takes the ‘ science ’ bit in social science very seriously ; and a newer yearning for consensus , for believing that all sensible people really agree with each other . |
| 10 | Allan Fromme , a clinical psychologist and therapist , gives his reasons for believing that persistent , excessive punishment is a policy of defeatism : |
| 11 | We should not regard their ‘ invention ’ of a structured gestural language as grounds for believing that earlier hominid handwaving could thus rapidly have attained parsable results . |
| 12 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 13 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 14 | This is one of the reasons why fertility is expected to rise a little in official projections , to 2.0 ( OPCS 1989a ) , although there are reasons for believing that these high expectations will not be matched by performance ( Shaw 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Or she might know about rusting and have other reasons for believing that these particular pieces of metal would not rust . |
| 16 | However , there are reasons for believing that these are the most appropriate lexicological units . |
| 17 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
| 18 | Partly for historical reasons , such as the impact the Poor Law made on their memories , and partly as a result of their attitudes towards financial ‘ dependence ’ on the state , there are grounds for believing that some of these factors are more acutely felt by older people than other age groups . |
| 19 | Thus if a member has a sound reason for believing that some malpractice is occurring in connection with the council 's funds , he is under a public duty to inform the council . |
| 20 | The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists . |
| 21 | But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance . |
| 22 | There are two reasons for believing that this is n't true . |
| 23 | Unless we have good reasons for believing that this continuous supply of potential users has somehow become ‘ inoculated ’ against heroin use ( e.g. through effective drug education ) , then we have to accept that the concept of total ‘ saturation ’ may be implausible . |
| 24 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The idea of believing that all cyclist are handbag snatchers is ludicrous . |
| 26 | It is an atavistic reaction , born partly of disappointment that decades of believing that infectious diseases are a danger past and partly from the underlying despair of those infected with HIV and the anger of the groups that represent them . |
| 27 | Thomson has taken the issue further , arguing that many twentieth-century writers on social welfare issues have been misled into believing that recent developments represent an abrupt break with historical experience because of the peculiarly restrictive and individualistic support systems for elderly people that emerged in the late Victorian period . |
| 28 | I appeal to the international community not to be flattered into believing that all these cosmetic changes are real changes , and to see to it that we , have a voice and a vote . |
| 29 | You may have been conned into believing that successful human beings are the ones with loads of brains and loads of friends but the truth is different ! |
| 30 | Let us hope then that England produce a performance of such mind-bending awfulness in order to succumb to this dodgy outfit , who probably ca n't believe that they are still in with a shout , and may thus fool themselves into believing that this is their year … at least until they hear the result from Turkey . |