Example sentences of "[adv] believe [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The armed forces apparently believed them to be carrying an order for King Bhumibol Adulyadej to sign dismissing Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong as Armed Forces Supreme Commander . |
| 2 | For her sake , you will smile and pretend to be the sweet , charming young woman she so foolishly believes you to be . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 5 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 6 | But if one does not believe them to be symbolically ‘ true ’ but false to one 's belief in human equality , there is no point in having made this sideways move . |
| 7 | ‘ You do not believe it of him , either , ’ she said with certainty . |
| 8 | I do not believe it to be excluded a priori that there could be some , and I do not believe that very much is to be achieved by very general assertions or denials of the possibility . |
| 9 | In the light of the above factors and on the assumption that there is unlikely to be any real increase in the dollar price of oil in the medium term , the Board does not believe it to be financially prudent to maintain the 1992 dividend at the same level as that paid in respect of 1991 . |
| 10 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 11 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
| 12 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 13 | She told herself to clear all thought of their bankruptcy from her mind , to think like the rich he still believed them to be . |
| 14 | An investigative Thrills series which lifts the lid on the stupid , rubbish stunts bands pull mistakenly believing them to be big or clever . |
| 15 | ‘ Not the helpless drug addict you once believed me to be ? ’ |
| 16 | Who will ever believe us on anything ? ’ |
| 17 | And turning on Chancellor Norman Lamont , he said : ‘ After this performance , who can ever believe you in anything you subsequently say ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm surprised to learn that you still believe me to be in possession of my cherry , or however you 'd phrase it . |
| 19 | He had always believed her to be promiscuous — now he was probably convinced , she thought bitterly , her face flaming as she recalled her total abandon in his arms . |
| 20 | Congress , as a strong Labour Party supporter and member for many years , and my father before me , I 've always believed it to be the working man 's Party , created and born from the sweat and blood of our predecessors , and throughout many years supported and financed by the unions with our subscriptions and the political levy and I see it 's supported by the trade unions . |
| 21 | ‘ So , Blacklock still believes her to be married and living the good life ? |
| 22 | 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable . |
| 23 | His defence was , therefore , that on the facts as he reasonably believed them to be , his use of force would not have been unlawful , and he was entitled to be acquitted according to the ordinary principles governing criminal liability . |
| 24 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 25 | ( e ) The actor is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim to reasonably believe it to be a weapon . |
| 26 | ( e ) The actor is armed with a weapon , or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead a person to reasonably believe it to be a weapon . |
| 27 | Thus , for example , criminal sexual conduct in the first degree is established where the defendant engages in sexual penetration with another and the actor is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim reasonably to believe it to be a weapon . |
| 28 | But I also believe it to be true . |
| 29 | We can therefore generalize from one experiment in which short-term storage is believed to operate to another in which we also believe it to be present . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |