Example sentences of "they believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 2 | Neither of them believed that mankind was equal , or could ever be so , or would ever seriously wish to be so . |
| 3 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 4 | They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work , which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness . |
| 5 | They believed that packing atoms together inside crystalline solids could produce so much pressure that the atoms would be squeezed together and hence fusion would occur in a test-tube . |
| 6 | They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments . |
| 7 | They believed that inflation would go up and that interest rates would go up , which would clearly lead to higher unemployment in Yorkshire and Humberside . |
| 8 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 9 | Perhaps not surprisingly given this , they believed that crime against them was racially motivated . |
| 10 | of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent . |
| 11 | Attitudes are changing , partly because managers can see that without their involvement computer systems are unlikely to succeed , and because they believe that computer systems should be able to help them in their decision-making . |
| 12 | Although the book 's authors concede that ‘ bluffing , exaggeration and obfuscation are all part of the game ’ , they believe that honesty , friendliness and fairness may be more than their own reward . |
| 13 | Indeed , they believe that instability in the past has been caused , rather than smoothed out , by governments ' futile attempts at demand-management policies . |
| 14 | Like most of the professionals , they believe that sport and politics should not be mixed and that they are victims of a situation over which they have no control . |
| 15 | ‘ In other words , James , they believe that Creator-man is with us now , inside every human skull . |
| 16 | They believe that death has been conquered and that it is not the end of life . |
| 17 | On discharge procedures and the trusts having to take care — in exactly the same way as health authorities now have to take care — of those for whom they believe that care is appropriate , the same rules should apply . |
| 18 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 19 | They believe that SSE should include mutual lesson observation ; that SSE should be conducted in a fraternal , egalitarian and self-critical spirit . |
| 20 | They believe that revenue will reach £820m a year in 2003 and £997m in 2013 — respectively 6.7 per cent and 8 per cent higher than forecast last year . |
| 21 | In other words they believe that sexism in this instance is built on some ‘ natural ’ foundation . |
| 22 | Or they believe that information specialists know what data executives and professionals need in order to have information . |