Example sentences of "[pron] believes that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian Council on Ageing ( CCoA ) is a national voluntary and inter-denominational organisation , inaugurated in 1982 , which believes that churches should give greater attention to the particular needs — and potential — of older people . |
| 2 | The move was steered successfully by P&O Roadtanks Managing Director , Bryan Haworth , who believes that customers are more confident being served by a company with a strong identity . |
| 3 | With these unrealistic expectations I 'm not sure who stands to lose the most — my daughter believing that you need a man , wealth and preferably a title to be happy , or my son who believes that women are beautiful and passive or wicked and powerful but , either way , he 'd better be handsome . |
| 4 | As one who believes that life exists from the moment of conception and is in the image of Christ , I support the petition and am opposed to anything that damages life in the way in which this pill is alleged to do . |
| 5 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 6 | The woman who believes that pregnancy is a physiological process and not a pathological one may decide that neither of her doctors is correct . |
| 7 | Another way in which reductions in stratospheric ozone levels may be partly offset has been suggested in Derwent ( 1982 ) , who believes that aircraft operations in the upper troposphere have caused an increase in ozone production . |
| 8 | The , the opposition here is between the Lamarckians who are wrong , and think you can inherit er , an acquired callous from your ancestors , and the Darwinian who is right , who believes that callouses are related to natural selection . |
| 9 | Someone who believes that abortion is murder will think that the checkerboard abortion statute produces more injustice than outright prohibition and less than outright license ; someone who believes women have a right to abortion reverses these judgments . |
| 10 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 11 | Anyone who believes that Mr Chatrier 's remarks can be dismissed either as those of someone who has lost touch with reality , are also way off the mark . |
| 12 | Anybody who believes that Yugoslavia could be dealt with as Saddam Hussein 's Iraq was dealt with had better look at the terrain . |
| 13 | She believes that University morale nationwide is undergoing change ‘ If anything else there is just a little hint of optimism here which was n't here before , ’ she says . |
| 14 | She believes that women with property or money are especially attractive to men , and that once that advantage has been surrendered , the husband may simply lose interest . |
| 15 | For a while she believes that Peter Roche is a doer . |
| 16 | Apparently , she believes that London is unsafe for the development of her heirs , Samuel Hurricane and Django . |
| 17 | Now the remarkable psychic detective exclusively opens a casebook that spans 20 years to tell two more amazing stories : Why she believes that Lord Lucan is still alive ; and how she helped the hunt to find the killers of tragic safari girl Julie Ward . |
| 18 | She believes that protests will soon emerge . |
| 19 | As she approaches it , she can not at first see Alix , but she believes that Alix will be there , and indeed momently she is : they converge , Esther from the west , Alix from the south , and moderate their pace ( Esther accelerating slightly , Alix marginally slowing down ) so that they meet upon the very corner itself . |
| 20 | She believes that children are a blessing from God and we should n't do anything to stop them . |
| 21 | She believes that Hewlett-Packard has now carved itself enough of a breathing space to be able to consider various options at both ends of the market . |
| 22 | Ask a Christian why he or she believes that God exists , and they might reply : ‘ It is a matter of faith . ’ |
| 23 | If one believes that industries should be owned by the government then one will argue that the level of taxation should be such that , taken with the government 's other financial resources , it should provide capital for investment wherever the government considers it necessary . |
| 24 | In fact , if one believes that policies are wrong or ineffective it is important to understand why this is so , particularly if one 's objective is to change them . |
| 25 | If one believes that education is for all children and must be regarded as in many ways the great equalizer , it is hard to accept the proposition that education in morality and religion should be left to parents whose fulfilment of this obligation will be far from equal . |
| 26 | Whether one believes that ideas of morality determine the content of criminal law or that they instead serve as justification for the state or a social class to exert economic and political control , the relationship between law and morals is important . |
| 27 | If one believes that God ( whatever one may mean by God ) is equally available to all times and places , then it is possible to start in the present in acquiring one 's religious sensibilities and formulating what one may mean by God . |
| 28 | While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels . |
| 29 | It believes that companies need to integrate environmental management with existing managemental structures and practices . |
| 30 | The Commission strongly affirms the value of silent as well as vocal participation , and it believes that worshippers need to be taught how to listen to music no less attentively than they do to the reading of Scripture , or to preaching , or to the recitation of prayers . |