Example sentences of "[adj] believe [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither the Labour Party , the Left contributors to Tribune nor the pacifist elements centred around the ILP were prepared to believe these protestations . |
| 2 | It is easy to believe this story , and sadly expertise in such design , principles and skills , devised in our country , have been neglected here and instead developed abroad to give commercial advantage to other nations . |
| 3 | Besides — and in the way the French Army of those days functioned it is hard to believe such considerations did not pass through Joffre 's mind — if things went badly wrong henceforth at Verdun , the Generalissimo 's responsibility would now be shared by another . |
| 4 | It 's hard to believe another child could do such a thing . |
| 5 | Given Labour 's espousal of the goal of a united Ireland , albeit by the consent of the people , it is hard to believe any accommodation could be reached with the Ulster Unionists . |
| 6 | Still I find it hard to believe most men would want to cede their privilege and power on the evidence you present . |
| 7 | Am I supposed to believe that story ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He 's supposed to believe this fairy story ? ’ |
| 9 | It is difficult knowing how far to credit such stories in twelfth-century sources , although given that the Ramsey chronicle is recording the history of its own house , and that the Peterborough source refers to trouble there at the same time , it is reasonable to believe that trouble of some sort there was . |
| 10 | The Encomiast 's tale that he was born to another woman and smuggled into Ælfgifu of Northampton 's bed at least implies that he was generally recognised as son of Cnut and Ælfgifu , and Adam calls Gorm the Old Hardecnudth Vurm , which if correct makes it feasible to believe that Cnut named Swegen and Harold from his father and grandfather , and Harthacnut , evidently the third-born , after his great-grandfather . |
| 11 | For the reasons given above , Handy believes these days will never return if the economy is left to operate on normal market mechanisms . |
| 12 | Few were inclined to believe this version , a scepticism reinforced over the years by countless reports , some highly credible , of sightings of the Swede , in prisons , mental homes and labour camps . |
| 13 | And we found that many parents were inclined to believe these kinds of reports , and yet this just was n't true if one saw what was going on in the schools . |
| 14 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |