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

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31 The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike .
32 It is a conclusion that need not worry supporters of inequality but which should cause concern to those who believed that social services could and would create a more equal society .
33 She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners .
34 She did not believe that the wicked could be caught by ten-year-old children and returned to the police station in exchange for a pony , any more than she believed that constant hot water would make young mothers smile constantly with relief and proud love .
35 Do you believe that German-speaking art historians will increasingly turn their attention to home-grown art ?
36 You believe that artistic expression involves some kind of radical transformation .
37 Cus D'Amato , the famed trainer who shaped Tyson 's career , was dismissive of teachers who believe that tall boxers were made to jab and move , relying mostly on their reach and mobility .
38 The one , posed by those who believe that new technologies do not , in the long run , have any effect on the overall level of employment , is along the lines of ‘ What happened to all the agricultural workers who left the land as new technology got applied to farming ? ’
39 Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction .
40 The guillotine motion after 10 o'clock tonight will attempt to preclude sensible contributions , attempt to preclude people from dealing with the difficulties and technicalities in the Bill , and pose a real problem for those of us who believe that local government is not a political football to be kicked about at whim , but an essential part of our democracy for the provision of essential services .
41 On the other hand , there are those who believe that human rights violations are the work of Communist terrorists , based on information they receive from heavily censored press reports and the Armed Forces Press Commission .
42 It is favoured by all those who believe that institutional practices can be changed by persistence and goodwill , and by those who understand that the best way to defeat feminism is to co-opt its radical and rebellious potential .
43 Transformation is preferred over transaction by those who believe that participative decision-making is crucial , but most managers — and the Earley and Fletcher-Campbell study underlines this — prefer to operate in both styles according to the nature of the task and the attitudes of those with whom they work .
44 The less simple translation is that the battle continues between economic reformists and those hardliners , led politically by the prime minister , Li Peng , and ideologically by the 86-year-old Chen Yun , who believe that quick reform leads only too quickly to bourgeois liberalisation and peaceful evolution — witness the student democrats in 1989 in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square and the collapse of communism in the countries of Eastern Europe .
45 Despite these occasional reservations , Norris writes as a disciple , who believes that other disciples , as well as Derrida 's enemies , have got him wrong .
46 I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution .
47 He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … .
48 She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided .
49 While the sport is in its infancy she believes that separate ladies ' events are needed to promote more participation .
50 2 ) With a larger number of employees we believed that accurate routine manpower information in a number of key areas — such as labour turnover , recruitment , and pay and benefit levels — becomes a still more important issue .
51 As with external assessment in the primary phase , we believe that new methods of testing pupils ' reading skills may need to be devised , building on the best of GCSE practice .
52 Our final recommendations will , inevitably , reflect available resources and the international movement 's policies — for example , that all members should campaign on all parts of the Mandate — but we believe that new initiatives are possible .
53 We believe that political power is best exercised at the most local level possible , consistent with good government .
54 We welcome the emphasis on Communication as the main aim of language teaching , but we believe that real communication can only be achieved when there is a sound knowledge of linguistic structure .
55 We believe that good clinical practice should include monitoring the concentrations of streptomycin during treatment , both to avoid potentially toxic concentrations and to ensure adequate dosage .
56 We believe that empirical findings of value gains in unrelated diversifications are overstated because the results of corporate catalysts are included .
57 We believe that effective language learning is a partnership between school , teacher and student , with the school providing the best possible conditions and environment for learning — high academic standards , well-equipped buildings and classrooms , up-to-date teaching materials and aids , well-organised course programmes , and a wide range of extra-curricular facilities and services .
58 In patients with amyloidosis , therefore , we believe that chemical typing of the amyloid protein is very important in predicting the clinical characteristics , course , and prognosis of the disease .
59 Together with the Alliance Party , our sister party and the only non-sectarian political party in Northern Ireland , we believe that mutual respect , shared responsibilities and decentralised government are the only basis for a lasting solution to the troubles of Northern Ireland .
60 We believe that young people should be free to choose between college , work-based training and sixth form studies .
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