Example sentences of "[noun prp] believe that [adj] " in BNC.

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31 For instance , does Professor Lee believe that professional accountants should not also be commercial ?
32 Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early .
33 OUP believes that modern methods of electronic data processing can be adapted to the tasks required for the production of a new OED .
34 On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage .
35 Resistance sources in Peshawar believe that hard-line Pushtun leader Gulbeddin Hekmatyar , who is attacking Bagram , may try to stage a coup in Kabul — something he attempted two years ago — denying the northern minorities power .
36 Franco believed that one of General Primo de Rivera 's mistakes had been to establish the provisional nature of his regime at the outset .
37 Predictably , Franco believed that these were essentially good , but impressionable , young people who had been led astray by the agents of " anti-Spain " .
38 Marx believed that capitalist values were completely determined by considerations of productivity .
39 Apart from the basic contradictions of capitalist society , Marx believed that certain factors in the natural development of a capitalist economy will hasten its downfall .
40 Marx believed that Western society had developed through four main epochs : primitive communism , ancient society , feudal society and capitalist society .
41 However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system .
42 Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership .
43 Marx believed that these and other contradictions would eventually lead to the downfall of the capitalist system .
44 The hardest lesson learned from such an exercise is that the emergency services from Oxfordshire , Gloucestershire and Warwickshire believe that one day they will combione again , to deal with the real thing … what emergency planners call the nightmare scenario .
45 Both Smith and Goodman believe that skilled adult reading is far from error-free , and that errors can be a positive sign that the sense of the text has been grasped .
46 Sitwell believes that most of her time was spent at needlework , reading , and gardening .
47 CAMRA believes that many ‘ independent ’ retailers are in effect tied to brewers .
48 Diderot believed that political rights belonged to property-owners , and Voltaire similarly identified " the people " with the middle class .
49 Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions .
50 Mrs Thatcher believed that greater local democracy would lead to a voter rebellion against high spending local authorities , forcing them to be less ambitious and more efficient .
51 The Yard and the FBI believe that many of the banks have been used in tax evasion schemes , by fraudsters and to launder money for South American cocaine cartels , which moved to the island after the US authorities applied pressure on the Panamanian banking system .
52 Nevertheless , Michael Bailey believes that this could be the beginning of the end of Asian drive fisheries , and that by working with people , with an understanding of their culture and needs , cooperation can result .
53 Boss Lennie Lawrence believes that last season 's cup conflict was written in the stars .
54 Cairns-Smith believes that organic molecules were prominent among non-replicating ‘ tools ’ of his inorganic crystalline replicators .
55 Weber believes that social stratification results from a struggle for scarce resources in society .
56 If they last , Phillips believes that joint ventures may hold the answer and thinks that the new shareholders who will take stakes after the existing owners are forced to divest themselves of 51% of ITN could provide the answer .
57 Lothar believed that all he needed was time .
58 British diplomats in Tokyo believed that increasing signs of restlessness could be perceived and that it would not be wise to delay a peace treaty for much longer .
59 As it is the ratepayer who funds and owns Council facilities , the DUP believes that any change to Sunday opening of Council provisions should only be undertaken following the test of the electorate 's opinion in a local poll held for that purpose in the district of the council .
60 Dr Nakamura believes that these changes happen within the lifetime of a magpie , suggesting that the birds may be improving their powers of discrimination through learning .
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