Example sentences of "they [adv] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers are also scared off by prices , he added , because some of them still believe that fault-tolerance means simply installing two machines that cost twice as much . |
| 2 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 3 | They wrongly believe that things can be put right by operating a framework where those on low pay can be paid even lower wages excuse me . |
| 4 | In spite of all the evidence from Abraham onwards , they apparently believed that God writes off anyone who does not belong to the actual nation of Israel . |
| 5 | Although , as I soon found out , the Russians themselves were models of inefficiency and poor organization , they nevertheless believed that anything that went wrong was a deliberate act of sabotage rather than the normal sort of mistake which occurs in every large organization . |
| 6 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 7 | If they rank the checkerboard solution last in other circumstances , in the case of strict liability for manufacturers , for example , they nevertheless believe that internal compromise is wrong , though for reasons that yield when the substantive issue is very grave . |
| 8 | They still believed that they had put a 2Mb memory upgrade into one of these machines to give it a 4Mb of RAM . |
| 9 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 10 | They still believe that the kingdom of Heaven is something present in the lives of men and women . |
| 11 | So Peter Abelard could argue that those who crucified Christ had not sinned because they genuinely believed that they were acting rightly . |
| 12 | I do not think that it was entirely the question of the ownership of Nigerian oil ; more likely they genuinely believed that the Biafrans had no chance of success . |
| 13 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 14 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 15 | They also believe that they have the right to snoop and that the shootings violate the German-Soviet treaty signed last year . |
| 16 | They also believe that the safety of a husband 's life and his prosperity depends on their scrupulously following all pollution taboos and keeping strictly to the purity rules . |
| 17 | And they also believe that would-be organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives . |
| 18 | They also believe that too much sugar in the diet , and the use of the contraceptive Pill have contributed to the problem . |
| 19 | They also believe that , like Zacchaeus , many people who have come back to God desire to make amends for their past . |
| 20 | They also believe that their greatest responsibility is to support the future of the monarchy . |
| 21 | They also believe that any man who is honest , truthful , and good can serve his King and country . |
| 22 | They also believe that their programme is working as most privatized companies are reporting increased turnover , investment and profitability . |
| 23 | They also believe that therapeutics should be examined as a separate subject in the final year of undergraduate study and that emphasis should be given to therapeutics throughout the whole medical curriculum , with a minimum of 100 hours being dedicated specifically to the subject . |
| 24 | They also believe that the northern industrialised countries and the larger developing countries are not giving sufficient priority to preventing the rise of sea levels . |
| 25 | They also believe that their poor accomodation may have been a factor in loosing the baby . |
| 26 | ‘ They also believe that … it should be dealt with speedily and its finding made public so that the confidence of the public in its health care will be restored . ’ |
| 27 | They also believe that Labour authorities have for too long abused their position as chief low-cost housing providers allowing bureaucracy and waste to mushroom at the expense of tenants . |
| 28 | They also believe that this will be a lagged response , with prices following an expansion of the money supply with a time-lag of up to two years . |
| 29 | When they came out the club went mad , and they honestly believed that the crowd thought they were good . ’ |
| 30 | They could see a difference between imperialist war and imperialist peace , and they fervently believed that , even short of the revolution , their own actions might be capable of preventing another Great War . |