Example sentences of "[not/n't] believe [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was agreed that the paper should be redrafted and circulated , and that any published statements of policy should make it clear Conservatives ‘ did not believe additional resources alone to be the answer to law and order problems , but that the humanizing of our society had an important contribution to make ’ .
2 Do not believe one word of what your mother says about Whangdoodles and Hornswogglers and Snozzwanglers and Vermicious Knids and the Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling Spittler .
3 When I tell the girls , I thought , they 'll not believe one word of this .
4 Even now , a year before the deciding vote , he does not believe that sport here understands what getting the Games would mean .
5 Peter Archer QC , the former Attorney-General , argued that : ‘ I do not believe that Parliament ever decided , on the merits , to retain capital punishment for treason and piracy . ’
6 I do not believe that licensing shops , for example , would help in practice .
7 if p were not true , a would not believe that p .
8 It does not believe that blanket measures to reduce overall consumption , for example higher taxes or restrictions on availability , would lead to a reduction in alcohol misuse .
9 I do not believe that altruism , good neighbourliness or even the visions of Jean Monnet have been the motivation behind the EC but simply hard-headed self interest .
10 I can not believe that Access genuinely charge interest on repaid money , which means that his bill was a cock-up and the brass-faced hussy at Southend was a liar .
11 Family members at his funeral said they do not believe official accounts .
12 I can not believe middle-aged women feel this rage .
13 While they still maintain feminist art history should raise ‘ fundamental questions for art history as a humanist discipline ’ , they do not believe feminist art history should be confined to the documentation of women artists ( as a form of additive history ) .
14 I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary .
15 Still , I do not believe these scenes of cruelty are there to titillate or entertain .
16 Do not believe any articles you may read that are written by restaurateurs , professional chefs or cordon bleu cooks about either soufflés , profiteroles , or flambés being the simplest thing in the world .
17 Mr Barnett said he did not believe any rules of racing had been broken , so he did not believe the Jockey Club could hold a disciplinary hearing .
18 This young woman , however , did not believe this course of action would solve anything .
19 Let me advise Council now , that if they proceed down this primrose path any further then it becomes a resignation issue for me and , I suspect , many others who can not believe this farrago .
20 ‘ I do not believe urban barbarism is about to engulf us .
21 Ken did n't believe Ace Cool had surfed a thirty-five-foot wave .
22 ‘ You must n't believe all Lori says .
23 ca n't believe that Sky was one of the most popular names last year in this country for a new baby girl
24 I do n't believe that shit about you watch a video then all of a sudden you 're a Rambo .
25 But I ca n't believe that girl oh Scott tells me everything !
26 Well , I do n't believe that fur a start .
27 So on that ground I feel would be very worried by by promoting the right to buy , erm I 've said everything I want to I did n't really want to elongate this this er this debate and I think it 's but I think , I do n't believe that Councillor mentioned the the the er the .
28 ‘ I ca n't believe that finding Angy having a cup of tea with a middle-aged housewife would have incited Eddie to commit murder , ’ said Melissa flatly .
29 But surely on the more austere view one can easily explain why it should be so peculiar to assert ‘ p but I do n't believe that p ’ .
30 this little girl runs to the he sees god and he ca n't believe that god looks like Charlton Heston , and you think
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