Example sentences of "they believe in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do some of them believe in gods that exist and others believe in gods that do n't exist ? |
| 2 | from the Conservatives saying that they believed in nursery education . |
| 3 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 4 | They believed in progress , in a certain amount of representative government , a certain amount of civil rights and liberties , so long as these were compatible with the rule of law and with the kind of order which kept the poor in their place . |
| 5 | Despite constant complaints about falling moral standards among the young , 92pc said they believed in marriage , although 72pc thought it was better to live together first . |
| 6 | Regarded as heretics by orthodox Muslims , they believed in reincarnation and the transmigration of the soul . |
| 7 | They believed in culture in addition to , and sometimes as an alternative to religion , in extreme cases substituting the ritual attendance at opera , theatre or concert for that at church . |
| 8 | Whereas for most Greeks and Romans , whether they believed in cycles or not , the dominant aspects of time were the present and the past , Christianity directed man 's attention to the future . |
| 9 | They believed in capitalism , in competitive private enterprise , technology , science and reason . |
| 10 | Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life . |
| 11 | It seems clear to us that all of the above criteria will be enhanced or negated by the way in which the change agent or the action system reacts to participation : what stereotypes do they have of client representatives ? do they believe in participation ? what expectations do they have of participation and client representatives ? |
| 12 | THEY believe in miracles down at The Valley . |
| 13 | Sure they believe in family values . |
| 14 | They believe in family values so much they 've had more than one family . |
| 15 | They believe in market forces and what they paraphrase as ‘ personal choice ’ . |
| 16 | He says I always comes because it 's a celebration of botany and of what people can do if they believe in plants and reach into that wonderful genetic stock of plants and create all these things — that 's why I come . |
| 17 | They believe in conformity . |
| 18 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 19 | Those who believe that they believe in God , but without any passion in their heart , any anguish of mind , without uncertainty , without doubt , without an element of despair even in their consolation , believe only in the God-idea , not in God . |
| 20 | Plenty of surveys have been conducted , asking respondents whether they believe in God , in Heaven or the Virgin birth . |
| 21 | But these people are not nice , orderly , home-and-family-loving because they believe in God . |
| 22 | Whether they believe in heaven and hell as places that physically exist with a geography of their own , or as concepts existing on the spiritual plane alone , this view holds good . |
| 23 | They believe in self-realisation . |