Example sentences of "they [modal v] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being sick can bring with it a degree of sympathy and attention that is greatly valued by more isolated individuals , and they may believe that if their health improves they will lose out on the time and attention that is given to them on the basis of their illness . |
| 2 | Therefore they may believe that their back pain , for example , is physical rather than addictive in origin . |
| 3 | As part of the denial of their own " family disease " they may believe that they themselves or the way in which they attempt to help others is what is inadequate rather than the capacity of the primary sufferer to receive the message of recovery . |
| 4 | They may believe that this conflicts with the clinical autonomy that they traditionally enjoy . |
| 5 | They may believe that a smaller share of a larger cake is absolutely bigger than a larger share of a smaller cake . |
| 6 | How extraordinary that people her own age should believe such grotesque , non-scientific ideas as that a man could be resurrected from the dead after , and a horrible thought it was , after being crucified ; and how fantastic that they should believe that all the dead would rise from their graves — all of them , those countless millions , millions upon millions , rising from the clay into which they had , long since , dissolved … . |
| 7 | They used to believe that investing in big , publicly traded issues would keep their portfolios liquid even in a bear market . |
| 8 | They would believe that all these people were caught up in this satanic net . |
| 9 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |