Example sentences of "[noun pl] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 2 | When the course began in 1976 its tutors believed that content was more important than process . |
| 3 | Third parties believed that Unkiar-Skelessi marked a further stage in Russia 's southward advance . |
| 4 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 5 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 6 | Those who support the cultural deprivation theory tend to believe that education can play a large part in remedying social inequality , while Marxists believe that education is an essential part of the process of reproducing inequality . |
| 7 | But since Marxists believe that capitalism as a social system is doomed , it follows that capitalism can not he rationally planned for ever . |
| 8 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 9 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 10 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 11 | Thus , in Wiseman v. Borneman the Inland Revenue Commissioners believed that part of the Finance Act concerning share transactions was applicable to the case before them ; the taxpayer objected and entered a statutory declaration setting out his reasons . |
| 12 | These philosophers and reformers believed that promotion of happiness could safely be entrusted to men and women themselves , without divine intervention , since they were innately good ; but some had misgivings about how to hold onto Christian charity . |
| 13 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 14 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 15 | In contrast , the tax cut enthusiasts believe that income tax is a major distortion and labour supply is very elastic . |
| 16 | Conservatives believe that tax cuts will lead to greater incentives and initiative , thereby creating an enterprise culture in which the benefits of growth will ultimately spread to everyone . |
| 17 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 18 | Most observers believed that south Korea would eventually be unified by north Korea with the support or at the instigation of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Christians believe that faith in Jesus is of paramount importance — the centurion 's servant ( Luke 7:1–10 ) . |
| 20 | Certainly Christians believe that compassion and love are qualities that Jesus possessed . |
| 21 | Republicans believe that intelligence passed on by the RUC special branch insider led to the arrest of several of their members recently on serious criminal charges . |
| 22 | The empiricists believe that language should be learnable by experience , without any prior knowledge . |
| 23 | If Roman Catholics believe that abortion is always wrong and contrary to God 's law , there is no compromise they can be offered , or which they can accept , which will satisfy their principles . |
| 24 | The relative lack of entry barriers and large number of firms appear to lead firms to believe that growth maximisation is a feasible objective , although the barriers to growth outlined above mean that , in practice , the objective is difficult to attain . |
| 25 | Geologists believe that oil and coal are composed of organic molecules because they themselves are derived from living things . |
| 26 | i As the new voluntary agreement on tobacco advertising is about to be published , a survey by the market research group Mintel has revealed that 61% of Britons believe that tobacco advertising should not be allowed . |
| 27 | Japan and Norway are both continuing research into wave power , and renewable energy campaigners believe that wave power could still be a major UK power contribution if research was encouraged and subsidised by the Government . |
| 28 | The investment curve will shift to I 2 and investment will increase quite markedly to Q 2 If , on the other hand , firms believe that inflation will now rise , which in turn will later force the authorities to pursue a tighter monetary policy , their confidence may well decrease . |
| 29 | Most firms believe that consistency is the best policy and stick to a reputable source of data and tried and tested formulae . |
| 30 | Some senior party figures believe that theme itself represents a strategic political withdrawal to ground that can be more easily defended in the face of Labour 's onslaught . |