Example sentences of "[noun pl] to believe that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The lack of any precise boundaries between the three closely-interwoven ethnic groups leads most observers to believe that Bosnia 's civil war will know no bounds , with the battle front cutting through villages and streets .
2 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 .
3 In the 1960s , the food supply system of Butare was reported to be adequate ; twenty years later we have reasons to believe that Butare 's steadily increasing population is finding it difficult to maintain the grip on familiar supply mechanisms .
4 He found that there were reasons to believe that bodies were placed supine below the pyre and that the average temperature achieved was about 900° C , but the quantity of fuel required was not determined .
5 Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose .
6 Yet the former has sufficient Spanish flavour , as does the Minkus score fur Don Quixote , for audiences to believe that characters really would perform in the way they do to the kind of music provided .
7 Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes !
8 On the day of his death Bangkok police announced that they had grounds to believe that members of the National Revolutionary Council ( Sapha Patiwat , also known as the National Democratic Council — see p. 36151 ) had been involved in the incident .
9 Firstly as you have probably already gathered , we have to satisfy you that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Lawrence was in the flat , the plaintiff 's flat .
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