Example sentences of "believe [conj] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That remains the best reason for believing that continental Europe will remain a region of growth in a faltering world economy . |
| 2 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 3 | Detectives now believe that 25-year-old Stephanie was held in a large workshop or warehouse type building . |
| 4 | Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it . |
| 5 | It was widely believed that 78-year-old President Kim Il Sung — around whom an extraordinary personality cult had been created — desired that his son should succeed him , but that the younger Kim lacked sufficient authority within either the ruling party or the army to be sure of a smooth succession . |
| 6 | Not least was the announcement that Fiat will build a car plant in the Soviet Union , a move described candidly by one Fiat official in the Guardian : ‘ Fiat believes that Eastern Europe will become the new Korea of the motor industry , except this time cheap production will be available on our doorstep , ’ he said . |
| 7 | But he believes that post-pilgrimage Libya ‘ is not the same Libya in the eyes of the other Arabs ’ . |