Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken sincerely believed that a separate-bedroom marriage would be the perfect relationship with someone for whom he cared so much . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Scott clearly believes that the upper classes have a disproportionate amount of power given the tiny percentage of the population that they make up . |
| 3 | Does Papert really believe that , without radical political steps , robot turtles can bring rich rewards in dealing with technologically advanced nations ? |
| 4 | Furthermore , to imagine that he 's repeating what Freud said , and claiming that Freud really believed that our sense of guilt about incest and murdering relatives was the result of , of socialization is again simply not true . |
| 5 | Pete Roche now believes that if the Scottish Miners Union leader Mick McGahey — a communist who supported the then official party policy of ‘ nuclear power with copper-bottomed safety ’ — had encouraged greater trade union involvement , a more substantial opposition could have been mounted . |
| 6 | Hardy firmly believed that it was his duty to face up to the unpleasant aspects of life , if by so doing he could show sympathy with his fellow man and , perhaps , after all , offer hope for improvement in the future . |
| 7 | However , Rhys firmly believes that some regulation on the use of large cars would be prudent through increased petrol duty . |
| 8 | Bede too believed that the time of Doomsday is concealed from mankind . |
| 9 | Pointing to the lack of decent recreational facilities m the slums , Butterworth also believed that ‘ it is pointless to denounce street evils , gang hooliganism or to mourn the absence of team spirit in poorer areas … |
| 10 | His argument may have turned out indecisively , but Halley evidently believed that scientific data were relevant to theological questions . |
| 11 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 12 | It is in this inherited conception of the equality of all human beings that the people of the Lake District provided a contrast to the rest of England ; Wordsworth therefore believed that ‘ humble and rustic ’ men were not yet corrupted . |
| 13 | Arnold genuinely believed that the transmission of a common culture could help unite the classes and promote fellow-feeling . |
| 14 | The NCC also believes that when bailiffs seize goods from people who are in arrears with the Council Tax which will replace the Community Charge , they should be obliged to leave behind essential items such as clothing , bedding , furniture and cookers . |
| 15 | Cockroft dearly believed that the source of the neutrons was thermonuclear fusion . |
| 16 | Serbs passionately believe that their people offered up enormous sacrifices during two world wars , both times on the side of the allies , so that they need not be divided again . |
| 17 | Wedgwood firmly believes that its wide choice of merchandise gives the right marketing mix and enables the Group to provide products that appeal to a broad section of the world public . |
| 18 | Mr Hume certainly believes that his strongly pro-European line — ‘ the only union that matters is the European union ’ — may have wooed some liberal Protestant voters . |
| 19 | It is no coincidence that Rousseau also believed that women were incapable of the development and education required for citizenship and ‘ must be trained to bear the yoke from the first … and to submit themselves to the will of others . ’ |
| 20 | Colonel Fagg obviously believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 21 | Although the nineteenth century had seen almost all restrictions on Catholics removed , the loyalists of Ulster still believed that to accept the authority of the Pope was to open the way to papal domination and the erosion of civil liberty . |
| 22 | But Bolinger also believes that there is a correlation with syntax , or at least with the facts of surface syntactic form . |
| 23 | Jesus clearly believed that the main aim of the ( Old Testament ) scriptures was to point people to himself ; which means in practice ( if we add Luke 's evidence to John 's ) , that through repentance and faith men and women should find the forgiveness and life which he had died and risen to make possible for them . |
| 24 | Does Greenfield really believe that oral societies lack these functions of language ? |
| 25 | Does Mr Baker really believe that such dishonesty and repression provide a ‘ strong family background ’ ? |
| 26 | The accusations of republican and Communist links were significant , and Craig obviously believed that it was reasonable to assume that the motives of NICRA were subversive . |
| 27 | Joe sincerely believed that it was n't in his nature to be cruel . |
| 28 | Marx nonetheless believed that an external reality did exist , and that human consciousness could understand it . |
| 29 | And Boutin still believes that his horse will hit the heights again . |
| 30 | Marx also believed that the day of Christianity was already past : it really belonged to an earlier , feudal pattern of society , and had been undermined beyond hope of recovery by the emergence of the bourgeois culture , which had already passed beyond it , and appeared to maintain it only for the most cynical of purposes . |