Example sentences of "believe [conj] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 2 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 3 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 4 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 5 | This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary . |
| 6 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 7 | Another important implication of behavioural rights such as these , is that if you believe in your own rights then , to be consistent , you must also believe that other people enjoy the same rights . |
| 8 | We might believe that other people are selfish , greedy and unpleasant , or that folk are generally kind and loving . |
| 9 | As far as I can make out , Deanes does n't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 10 | User expectations are often unreasonably high ; use of administrative computing systems encourages bureaucrats to believe that environmental data can just as readily be analysed and used to support decisions . |
| 11 | They could hardly bring themselves to believe that such people could behave politely . |
| 12 | Those who have it will be better at forming relationships of all sorts because they do not find it impossible to believe that other people could actually respect them and care for them . |
| 13 | It is socialisation that transforms ageing into something that is to be feared , and leads us to believe that older people are to be pitied . |
| 14 | To confirm this , more comfortable images of old people have been created , enabling us to believe that older people are leading lives which are happy , contented and fulfilled . |
| 15 | Motor industry executives believe that many people held off buying until after the election because of uncertainty about higher tax bills if Labour took office . |
| 16 | Some kind of realism is important whether the movie itself is ‘ realistic ’ in reflecting the real world more or less as we perceive it or believe that other people do , or whether it is clearly a fantasy of some kind , set in the future or the distant past or another galaxy or in a present where some of the rules have been changed or abolished , eg time travel is possible , robot androids pass for human , most of the population are zombies , animals speak English , people mix with cartoon characters , or what you will . |
| 17 | I believe that such people would find it inexplicable if that were to happen . |
| 18 | We believe that all people are formed , sustained and affirmed through a process of love and relationship with others . |
| 19 | We believe that retired people who have worked all their lives are entitled to a decent standard of living . |
| 20 | We believe that young people should be free to choose between college , work-based training and sixth form studies . |
| 21 | Indeed , we often find that older workers themselves believe that younger people have the greater right to a job , particularly in times of high unemployment . |
| 22 | Tony Kennedy , chief executive of Co-operation North , said : ‘ Co-operation North … was especially keen to become involved in this major event , because we believe that older people have a vital role to play in promoting understanding and tolerance between the people of Ireland , North and South . |
| 23 | ‘ Co-Operation North , which aims to advance mutual understanding and respect between the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic , was especially keen to become involved in this major project because we believe that older people have a vital role to play in promoting better understanding and tolerance between the people of Ireland , north and south , ’ said |
| 24 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 25 | Moreover , I believe that few people in this room will step forward to denounce the idea of animal welfare , as if it is a matter of indifference whether an animal 's life is good or bad . |
| 26 | If things are as bad as the hon. Gentleman says , will my right hon. Friend ask the business men why the west midlands has managed to attract so much investment in manufacturing from abroad , why foreign countries have chosen to locate in the United Kingdom and whether they believe that those people would stay if they had to experience the burden of heavy taxation , job losses and days lost in strikes that would occur with the return of a Labour Government ? |
| 27 | We believe that mass media and other forms of communication must contribute to peace , justice and understanding . |
| 28 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 29 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 30 | His argument may have turned out indecisively , but Halley evidently believed that scientific data were relevant to theological questions . |