Example sentences of "believe [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 2 | He really believed that line of Blake 's : ‘ The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom ’ , something like that . |
| 3 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 4 | For to understand a sentence is to be able to pick out situations which justify us in believing that sentence to be true . |
| 5 | ‘ For de Raimes , for believing that bitch at Gloucester even for a minute , for losing my damnable temper and not giving you a chance to tell me the truth . ’ |
| 6 | Equally unlikely but certainly possible is a situation in which the defendant has sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent , mistakenly believing that woman to be his wife . |
| 7 | Large numbers of Labour Party activists rejected the ban on political agitation , believing that pressure for a more socialist approach to the war effort was a precondition of victory . |
| 8 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 9 | They did not travel to Tibet to seek enlightenment in high places and in an alien culture — though one at least knew the capacity of the literal pilgrimage journey to trigger an existential experience of this power , and they all believed some kind of solitude and withdrawal from the normal conditions of social life to be an enabler of such knowledge . |
| 10 | He believed some movement in the case would be made by the end of this month . |
| 11 | I was hoping for the best , never believing this sort of thing could happen to my own little horse . |
| 12 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |
| 13 | The days of loyally believing false things about Gustave are over . |
| 14 | He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning . |
| 15 | Uncapped tight-head who , at 30 , believed all hope of playing internationals had gone , despite 95 games for his province . |
| 16 | Believing all sorts of things ! |
| 17 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 18 | The company believed more opportunities in the pub sector could materialise following the implementation of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report . |
| 19 | An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 . |
| 20 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 21 | I do n't believe that shit about you watch a video then all of a sudden you 're a Rambo . |
| 22 | No one who has listened to this debate so far , let alone anyone who listens to it between now and 10 o'clock , will believe that assertion for a moment . |
| 23 | I ca n't believe this second of June 's so cold . |
| 24 | So severe does Naylor believe this question of interdependency to be that he devotes the whole of his 1986 study to an attempt to develop an alternative to the portfolio matrix . |
| 25 | This young woman , however , did not believe this course of action would solve anything . |
| 26 | Well I do n't believe this sort of thing goes on and suggest that Jon Ronson made it all up after reading a dodgy magazine . |
| 27 | Who would believe this flight by night . |
| 28 | Do n't believe this crap about them being police . |
| 29 | ‘ But , Father , can one believe such wickedness of any man ? |
| 30 | Still , I do not believe these scenes of cruelty are there to titillate or entertain . |