Example sentences of "[pers pn] to believe [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 2 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 3 | Efforts of NALGO 's membership to develop policies for dealing with HIV infection and employment , and getting these converted into policy , have , however , led me to believe that NALGO membership is important not simply because of the wider political issues involved , but because HIV threatens employment security . |
| 4 | They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work , which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness . |
| 5 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 6 | Whereas rumour led him to believe that Robert Beaumont was a cultivated man , likely to appreciate music . |
| 7 | Did he really expect her to believe that Tara was only the housekeeper ? |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher was apparently informed of the French decision during the Strasbourg session on monetary union last weekend and it may well have encouraged her to believe that Britain 's European partners are now ready to take the difficult decisions which are a prelude to monetary union . |
| 9 | If she has a religious faith which enables her to believe that death is not the end and that she and her husband will be re-united one day , she should be supported and encouraged in this , as it is something really positive on which she can begin to rebuild the rest of her life . |
| 10 | The recent series of disasters from The Herald of Free Enterprise onwards , has led us to believe that Britain is particularly unsafe . |
| 11 | Conventional corporate finance leads us to believe that debt financing is usually cheaper than equity financing . |
| 12 | He added ‘ The way we see the client-server and distributed data processing market leads us to believe that Unix has a clear advantage over any other operating system . ’ |