Example sentences of "not believe [conj] [noun] " 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 | No one wants to see students forced to abandon their studies for financial reasons and no one wants to see students in hardship , but I do not believe that students are abandoning their studies for financial reasons . |
| 4 | I do not believe that magistrates will be able to show any greater compassion or understanding that our own elected members . |
| 5 | Keynesians see money supply as less important , but even they do not believe that money supply can be ignored . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The incident had never been referred to again and Dorothea did not believe that Alida would remember it . |
| 8 | I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well . |
| 9 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 10 | We do not believe that Europe divided was either stable or just . |
| 11 | We do not believe that fruit flies have a chance of 61/84 of red eyes because on its own this is a silly idea ; but also , it does not fit with the rest of our accumulated knowledge . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It requires a depth of human understanding , an ability to communicate on a one-to-one basis with different characters , and I do not believe that Frank can do this very well . |
| 15 | I do not believe that M. Guérigny did feel responsible . |
| 16 | Nevertheless I do not believe that philosophy is an appropriate subject for study by pupils at school . |
| 17 | Clara , already familiar with children of famous parents , and with children who believed their parents to be famous , could not believe that Clelia 's assumption was ill-founded , yet she could not even locate the field of Mrs Denham 's distinction . |
| 18 | On the whole , correspondents did not believe that church musicians receive as much encouragement as they deserve . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Speakers at a Beverley antislavery meeting in 1824 did not believe that slaves needed ‘ foreign stimulus ’ to make them rebel ; their own sufferings were sufficient . |
| 21 | But the white man does not believe that cattle are payment for taking someone 's life . ’ |
| 22 | She made exhaustion into a political virility symbol , and was foolishly critical of those who did not believe that decisions were best taken in a state of prostration . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do not believe that Lady Eleanor fell downstairs . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Whichever way the outcome goes in an individual case , I do not believe that society can lose . |
| 26 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 27 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 30 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |