Example sentences of "[pron] do not believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do not believe in the audition system . |
| 2 | The known facts about Shakers are carefully set out by June Sprigg and I do not believe her work is a romantic history . |
| 3 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 4 | I do not believe there is any absolute virtue in such openness , in fact , I think that education is ideally carried on in a shared form of life where there is agreement about fundamentals and attention can be concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not believe that making people poorer will stimulate change , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I do not believe that at the end of a week in which we have honed a new policy we are going to even contemplate bargaining that away in smoke-filled rooms with Paddy Ashdown , David Owen , or anyone else . ’ |
| 7 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 8 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 9 | I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist . |
| 10 | I do not believe that reaction occurs except through individual resistance in the first place . |
| 11 | Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past . |
| 12 | Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do not believe you . ’ |
| 14 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 16 | Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’ |
| 17 | Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’ |
| 18 | But I do not believe the demonstrations were in vain , because the spirit of freedom has been rekindled among the Chinese people , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I do not believe that youth is incapable of true and lasting love … |
| 20 | In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it . |
| 21 | PARKS : I do not believe it befits the Committee to force me to do this . |
| 22 | Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on . |
| 23 | I do not believe that things like that normally happen in a lifetime . ’ |
| 24 | Chancellor Kohl said : ‘ I do not believe this is a trend that will destroy the party system . |
| 25 | I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss . |
| 26 | I do not believe that they would be put off by a hostile bid not being ‘ good-form ’ . ’ |
| 27 | I do not believe a more structured approach will kill creativity ; on the contrary , given the necessary skill children 's achievements can be quite remarkable . |
| 28 | But I do not believe that we can assemble a majority for anything as negative as ‘ get the Tories out ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’ |