Example sentences of "be to be believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 2 | If all the claims of timber merchants and suppliers are to be believed , most tropical timber sold in Britain is already produced on a sustainable basis . |
| 3 | This means in practical terms that friends and club are OK , and are to be believed , while ‘ outsiders ’ of all kinds are not , nor are they worth contacting to check information . |
| 4 | If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ . |
| 5 | But it appears to be getting less so , if government figures are to be believed . |
| 6 | By BEN FENTON WHATEVER is pushing women voters towards the Liberal Democrats , it is not some mysterious ‘ Ashdown Factor ’ , if the party 's female supporters in Richmond-upon-Thames are to be believed . |
| 7 | As a result , if the polls are to be believed , the gap in popularity between him and Mr Kinnock began to close . |
| 8 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 9 | Smugglers , drug addicts and couriers were frequent travellers , and if all the stories are to be believed the train carried every spy from the notorious Mata Hari to the faceless agents of the cold war . |
| 10 | After that it was on to the theatre for the evening show , then back to the Theatre Girls ' Club for , if they are to be believed , another meal of egg and chips . |
| 11 | Any remaining doubts about the industry 's ability to compete effectively with the tunnel may be dispelled if the results of recent research from the London Business School ( published in the journal Economic Policy ) are to be believed . |
| 12 | If the photographs are to be believed , the water is azure blue and clear to the sea bottom . |
| 13 | If the Doors comparisons are to be believed — which they are not — success is only around the corner if the amount of hype for Oliver Stone 's movie is anything to go by . |
| 14 | More or less universal was the practice of allowing cash or kind allowances to married men with children , to bring their basic earnings up to a bare living ; in return they could be hired out in gangs , work on the roads , or if the critics are to be believed , do nothing . |
| 15 | And the birth of the Universe , if some current theories are to be believed , depended on particles that did not have any physical existence at all . |
| 16 | He arrived home on 4 June , to a passionate reunion with his wife ( if his letters , full of expressions of his desire for her , are to be believed ) . |
| 17 | And Yorkshire girls top the female tippling table with women in Scotland — if the figures are to be believed — hardly touching a drop . |
| 18 | If the fashion pundits are to be believed , this Wild West look will be riding high on the beach next summer . |
| 19 | What he said — if contemporary accounts are to be believed — includes the first use of the word that , as a geographical descriptive and identifier , is central to this book and , if one accepts the dominant economic theses of today , central to the future development of the planet . |
| 20 | If some know-all sourpusses are to be believed , The Rockingbirds are n't appreciated in the same way as Suede or Kingmaker or Therapy ? : they 're just an average bunch of Luddites being championed because of kitsch , ‘ so out it 's in ’ considerations . |
| 21 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 22 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 23 | If tales are to be believed his improbable bulk was due to his eating raw Troll for a wager . |
| 24 | SCO is already battling with IBM 's OS/2 , which , if the spin doctors are to be believed , will still make at least some of the running in its 32-bit form . |
| 25 | Both crises arose from discontent over the financing of the war , but it is perhaps a measure of the king 's failing powers that whereas in 1340–1 the lead in attacking his ministers had been taken by the king himself , the initiative now rested with a group of lay nobles , chief amongst whom , if some of the chroniclers are to be believed , was the young Earl of Pembroke . |
| 26 | The Scots ' reputation for industry may be called into question if the results of a P-E International survey are to be believed |
| 27 | The birch existed , particularly in the older public and grammar schools , nor was it absent from some of the newer schools , if the denunciations of some publicists are to be believed . |
| 28 | The theatre is known to have been built in 1599 , and closed by 1642 , but if records are to be believed today 's rebuilding hardly matches the efficiency of 17th century construction workers . |
| 29 | If the memoirs of a Mr. J. Stanley Todd are to be believed , the employers first became aware of such a plan as a result of a chance encounter between himself and the union 's solicitor , presumably the " long-faced " Thomas Watson Brown , on the ferry between North and South Shields . |
| 30 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |