Example sentences of "[noun sg] to believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret Meek ( 1982 , p.26 ) says that ‘ The parents ’ role … is to encourage the child to believe that reading is a worthwhile and pleasurable thing to do , that literacy is within his grasp , and to provide the means for his enjoyment and success ' . |
| 2 | Up until now there has been no need to believe that neutrinos have any mass at all . |
| 3 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 4 | There is strong evidence to believe that Bamford was representative in another respect : their first child was present at the wedding . |
| 5 | So for Rabbit to believe that P is true is just for him to believe P , i.e. to believe that there 's honey . |
| 6 | ‘ I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies , education and culture for their minds , and dignity , equality and freedom for their spirits . |
| 7 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 8 | Propaganda against the Woodvilles had led the commonalty to believe that Rivers , Vaughan and Grey had plotted to gain control of the as yet uncrowned king . |
| 9 | It must also be remembered , however , that there is every reason to believe that dunes will represent the interaction between local wind and sand conditions and the resultants of short term and long term changes in these conditions . |
| 10 | In a statement Prosecutor-General Gheorghe Robu said there was no longer any reason to believe that Munteanu 's release from " preventive detention " would endanger public order , although Munteanu remained under investigation pending possible charges . |
| 11 | The competition authorities should concern themselves with firms ' conduct only when there is reason to believe that competition is absent ( or would be absent were the conduct permitted ) . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints . |
| 13 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 14 | I have every reason to believe that authorities have made use of these powers . |
| 15 | However , there is no reason to believe that behaviour can not be switched by simpler means such as false cues . |
| 16 | Similarly , there is no reason to believe that matriliny preceded patriliny . |
| 17 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 18 | Unless the applicant for service has good reason to believe that service by simple delivery will be accepted , he should supply a translation , for there is otherwise a risk of delay while the Central Authority reports that that mode of delivery has failed and requests a translation of the document . |
| 19 | There is , however , no reason to believe that fundectomy is associated with increased duodenogastric reflux . |
| 20 | But in this respect too there is good reason to believe that things have recently begun to go seriously wrong : |
| 21 | Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics . |
| 22 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 23 | There is also an increasing awareness amongst neo-Marxists that the failure of state socialist regimes ' consumer markets and productivity rates to compare favourably with Western capitalism gives workers in capitalist society little reason to believe that socialism will improve their material prosperity . |
| 24 | There is every reason to believe that nerve fibres can also transmit messages from cell to cell with different codes . |
| 25 | ‘ I have reason to believe that Nader 's business contact could be involved with a terrorist organisation . |
| 26 | Indeed , I have every reason to believe that Father did not regard me as decorative at all . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm left with extremely uncomfortable questions about what makes men tick and I do n't see any reason to believe that men in the former Yugoslavia are different from men elsewhere . |
| 28 | praised Henry in a list of the great figures of the English court ; but there is no reason to believe that Henry held a position corresponding to the modern poet laureate , as has sometimes been alleged . |
| 29 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 30 | And although elite mobility is likely to decline , ‘ there is reason to believe that access to positions in the political elite will remain less restricted in character than is typically the case in the capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , p. 242 ) . |