Example sentences of "[not/n't] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a three-week sentencing hearing in late September and early October , however , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , of the US Federal District Court of Atlanta , declared that he did not believe that Drogoul was the sole orchestrator of the Iraqi loans , and alluded to Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documents which proved " definitely " that Drogoul had acted with the full knowledge of BNL 's head office in Rome . |
| 2 | All of the writing attainment targets should be assessed in the context of those pieces of work ; we do not believe that spelling or handwriting should be assessed through decontextualised tests or exercises . |
| 3 | Keynesians see money supply as less important , but even they do not believe that money supply can be ignored . |
| 4 | She did not believe that marriage , or pairing , or however you cared to define a sexual relationship , was the key to happiness and fulfilment ; you only had to look around you to see that this was not so . |
| 5 | It does have something to do with the movement of passengers from the north of the country to the channel tunnel , but , as I have already explained , I do not believe that King 's Cross is essential to achieve that end . |
| 6 | But Roderick Henderson , who runs the chef division of recruitment consultant Berkeley Scott , does not believe that contract catering is always a financially rewarding sector in which to work . |
| 7 | I do not believe that M. Guérigny did feel responsible . |
| 8 | Nevertheless I do not believe that philosophy is an appropriate subject for study by pupils at school . |
| 9 | On the whole , correspondents did not believe that church musicians receive as much encouragement as they deserve . |
| 10 | We do not believe that cholestasis is an important factor in the increase in laminin despite the significant correlation found with bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase , because alkaline phosphatase activity was not significantly associated with laminin in the multivariate analysis . |
| 11 | If the Secretary of State does not believe that GP fund holding produces two-tier waiting lists , how can he explain the position in Manchester , where patients of fund holders are given eye treatment in a private wing , while patients of other GPs wait 13 months for an appointment ? |
| 12 | Whichever way the outcome goes in an individual case , I do not believe that society can lose . |
| 13 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 14 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 15 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 16 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 17 | The Government support that position and do not believe that immigration and asylum matters should fall within the competence of the treaty of Rome . |
| 18 | But it does not believe that music should be used to cover up , or encourage , worshippers to talk . |
| 19 | This is a project which is currently being pursued by contemporary women artists who , unlike Bridget Riley perhaps , do not believe that art is necessarily free of gender : ‘ in order to discover what is retrievable from the abstract project , we must subject it to an interrogation that is neither submissive nor cynical ’ . |
| 20 | He did not believe that council reform should be at the top of the list of problems to be dealt with in Scotland . |
| 21 | She does not believe that day care can substitute for the one-to-one relationship between mother and child , and favours the introduction of greater financial incentives and other support for the family care of children . |
| 22 | I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist . |
| 23 | I do not believe that reaction occurs except through individual resistance in the first place . |
| 24 | Surely the terrorists can not believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement . |
| 25 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 26 | ( 1977 ) , 50 per cent of Labour identifiers supported more nationalisation of industry , 61 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services , and 44 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power . |
| 27 | I do not believe that linguistics has any contribution to make to the teaching of English or the standard European languages . |
| 28 | But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy . |
| 29 | The EC does not believe that recognition will be a panacea for Bosnia , the tinderbox of the First World War and a patchwork of warring groups made up of 60 per cent Muslims , 30 per cent Serbs and 20 per cent Croats . |
| 30 | I do not believe that youth is incapable of true and lasting love … |