Example sentences of "[adv] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people wrongly believed that setaside land would soon bloom with wildflowers like this ancient Cotswold grazing meadow , which is now a nature reserve . |
| 2 | Suppose we have lived in utter darkness and only believed that darkness was light ? ’ |
| 3 | Colonel Fagg obviously believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 4 | They may chug along believing that structure is all there is to it or that a combination of structure and roles is the answer . |
| 5 | The person or creature — one of your sub-personalities — starts to argue with you , telling you all the reasons why you are wrong , and why you would do much better to believe that life is full of suffering ! |
| 6 | It was long believed that remarriage and the prospects of remarriage must be taken into account when considering a widower 's claim but this must be in some doubt following the wide interpretation given to s4 of the Act in Stanley v Siddique [ 1992 ] 1 QB 1 : see Kemp & Kemp ( Sweet & Maxwell ) 22 – 004 et seq . |
| 7 | Professor Williams , however , not only believes that rape should have a limited ambit because of the severity of the penalty , but that procuring a woman by threat should also be subject to limitations even though its maximum penalty is merely two years ' imprisonment . |
| 8 | Bismarck said he sympathised with the Polish position , but nevertheless believed that Germanisation meant the Poles would be emancipated and enriched by contact with German language and culture . |
| 9 | During a three-week sentencing hearing in late September and early October , however , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , of the US Federal District Court of Atlanta , declared that he did not believe that Drogoul was the sole orchestrator of the Iraqi loans , and alluded to Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documents which proved " definitely " that Drogoul had acted with the full knowledge of BNL 's head office in Rome . |
| 10 | All of the writing attainment targets should be assessed in the context of those pieces of work ; we do not believe that spelling or handwriting should be assessed through decontextualised tests or exercises . |
| 11 | Keynesians see money supply as less important , but even they do not believe that money supply can be ignored . |
| 12 | She did not believe that marriage , or pairing , or however you cared to define a sexual relationship , was the key to happiness and fulfilment ; you only had to look around you to see that this was not so . |
| 13 | It does have something to do with the movement of passengers from the north of the country to the channel tunnel , but , as I have already explained , I do not believe that King 's Cross is essential to achieve that end . |
| 14 | But Roderick Henderson , who runs the chef division of recruitment consultant Berkeley Scott , does not believe that contract catering is always a financially rewarding sector in which to work . |
| 15 | I do not believe that M. Guérigny did feel responsible . |
| 16 | Nevertheless I do not believe that philosophy is an appropriate subject for study by pupils at school . |
| 17 | On the whole , correspondents did not believe that church musicians receive as much encouragement as they deserve . |
| 18 | We do not believe that cholestasis is an important factor in the increase in laminin despite the significant correlation found with bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase , because alkaline phosphatase activity was not significantly associated with laminin in the multivariate analysis . |
| 19 | If the Secretary of State does not believe that GP fund holding produces two-tier waiting lists , how can he explain the position in Manchester , where patients of fund holders are given eye treatment in a private wing , while patients of other GPs wait 13 months for an appointment ? |
| 20 | Whichever way the outcome goes in an individual case , I do not believe that society can lose . |
| 21 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 22 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 23 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 24 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 25 | The Government support that position and do not believe that immigration and asylum matters should fall within the competence of the treaty of Rome . |
| 26 | But it does not believe that music should be used to cover up , or encourage , worshippers to talk . |
| 27 | This is a project which is currently being pursued by contemporary women artists who , unlike Bridget Riley perhaps , do not believe that art is necessarily free of gender : ‘ in order to discover what is retrievable from the abstract project , we must subject it to an interrogation that is neither submissive nor cynical ’ . |
| 28 | He did not believe that council reform should be at the top of the list of problems to be dealt with in Scotland . |
| 29 | She does not believe that day care can substitute for the one-to-one relationship between mother and child , and favours the introduction of greater financial incentives and other support for the family care of children . |
| 30 | I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist . |