Example sentences of "he believe [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will go about the city in the weeks to come , and Phil will point out things behind doorways and up courtyards that he 'd never noticed , and explain how the whole set-up of the city is really a conspiracy , and read out public notices in a voice that makes them suddenly ridiculous , and persuade him to believe preposterous stories . |
| 2 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 4 | He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning . |
| 5 | An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 . |
| 6 | Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ? |
| 7 | If there are two elections this year — which all the pollsters are naturally hoping for — he believes political polls may account for up to 15 p.c. , with market research accounting for the rest . |
| 8 | But a senior social worker says he believes young offenders who are sent to court for first offences are far more likely to commit new crimes . |
| 9 | He believes young drivers should take every chance to learn more about safe driving |
| 10 | He believes such innovations as ‘ distance working ’ , which will enable people to operate from home ‘ instead of having to converge on places in order to work ’ , will offer all kinds of promise for improving some of the less agreeable aspects of a business career . |
| 11 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 12 | He believes some firms could then reject the town as an unemployment blackspot . |