Example sentences of "believe [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 2 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 3 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 4 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 5 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 6 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 7 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 8 | R placed great emphasis on the Government 's efforts in education , perhaps believing that this approach would evoke a sympathetic response from its recently educated African readership . |
| 9 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 10 | The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists . |
| 11 | Friends of mine who read SHE ca n't believe that this man who is so outrageous on the page is so quiet in real life . |
| 12 | Do you truly believe that this country has really benefited from the importation of blacks , Asians etc ? |
| 13 | In contrast , Jones ( 1989 ) argued that " only the most myopic enthusiasts for parent power can believe that this constituency [ the total number of 100,000 parent-governors ] will , by being placed in a quasi-market situation , automatically start operating as agents of that system " . |
| 14 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 15 | As it will have become clear , I do not believe that this vehicle is tenable . |
| 16 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 17 | Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time . |
| 18 | We do not believe that this kind of analysis can be politically or morally neutral — and nor should it , for our understanding of the situation is that the penal system is morally indefensible and is in dire need of a programme of radical reform which will inevitably be highly political . |
| 19 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 20 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 21 | Environmentalists do not believe that this phase-out is fast enough . |
| 22 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 23 | I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past . |
| 24 | " There 's something which I did n't mention , but I want to make it absolutely clear , and that is that I 've reason to believe that this craft , the Dreadnought , leaks quite badly . " |
| 25 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 26 | There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell . |
| 27 | ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’ |
| 28 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 29 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 30 | Along with most other docs , I used to believe that this fluid was always urine — and that the ladies were being slightly incontinent under the wholly understandable stress of ‘ coming ’ . |