Example sentences of "[pron] believe [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 Now Diana wants to give them the sort of holiday she believes young boys should have … not shut up in old castles . ’
32 She believes Scottish schools do take their responsibilities seriously , but that all outdoor activities carry an element of risk , depending on the nature of the activity .
33 But do we believe modern scientists , none of whom has actually been inside a whale 's belly ?
34 We believe immediate steps could be taken to generate jobs .
35 We believe specific criteria should be formulated to enable a reasoned judgement to be made as to whether any new body should be subject to the provisions .
36 We believe all rights of way must be preserved . , .
37 We believe all parents have the right to choice in education — not only those who can afford school fees .
38 We believe two Somalis were wounded but they fled and two US Army Rangers were slightly wounded , ’ Major David Stockwell said .
39 Under its influence we believe good men can resist evil .
40 Until this happens we believe such areas will continue to be particularly vulnerable to this and all other types of development .
41 We believe political officials have responsibilities we could not defend if we had to build these directly from the ordinary requirements of individual personal morality most of us accept for ourselves and others in nonpolitical life .
42 We believe higher standards of care are required .
43 We have received no formal approaches of this sort although we believe some organisations may have expressed some informal interest to DTI .
44 We believe these improvements will ensure that The Independent remains second to none in the breadth and depth of its coverage .
45 Naturally , we believe voluntary bodies have a particularly important contribution to make , and hope that the Council will bolster its collaboration with Wales Link and all its member organisations .
46 Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken .
47 ‘ We 're not laying claim to a social plan just for the pleasure of doing one , but because we believe accompanying measures must be put in place and the occasion must be seized to explore all possible avenues towards preserving the maximum employment , ’ the representative is quoted as saying .
48 Similarly — and we declare this honestly and proudly — we believe human males have a genetic thirst to flirt .
49 In each of these case studies — which deal with major problems or issues which have prompted analysis from all three perspectives — we briefly outline how Marxists , pluralists and elite theorists analyse the problems ; we then show how , and to what extent , they believe these problems can be resolved .
50 They believe any moves to reduce the number of firearms will only create a black market in illegal weapons .
51 And far from silently resenting the city fat cats , they believe top businessmen deserve success .
52 C. The British Government normally does only those things which they believe large sections of the public want .
53 They will go about the city in the weeks to come , and Phil will point out things behind doorways and up courtyards that he 'd never noticed , and explain how the whole set-up of the city is really a conspiracy , and read out public notices in a voice that makes them suddenly ridiculous , and persuade him to believe preposterous stories .
54 The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead .
55 Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image .
56 Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) .
57 He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning .
58 An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 .
59 Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ?
60 Therefore if a firm plays Cournot , it believes rival firms will not change output in response to a change in hence , the slope of the inverse demand function .
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