Example sentences of "believe [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 2 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 3 | The old regime believed that such accountability and planning ran counter to the culture of academic autonomy . |
| 4 | One chief executive believed that such thinking was so important to his organization 's success in a high-tech field that he staged a highly imaginative top management meeting . |
| 5 | ‘ Kao Tzu believed that each man , at birth , was like a willow tree , and that righteousness was like a bowl . |
| 6 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 7 | Many women believed that these reforms involved transforming the whole tenor of English public life and creating an ethical and moral climate founded on the teachings of religion . |
| 8 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 9 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 10 | Many officials believed that these disturbances were prompted by needless interference with traditional society . |
| 11 | Mary MacArthur , a leading woman trade unionist , believed that these figures could be attributed to the ‘ treble strain of child-bearing , wage-earning and household drudgery ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 14 | The reason was , I think , that the Africans were deeply suspicious of Ian Smith and believed that any agreement which was devised to give them full democratic rights would in fact never be implemented . |
| 15 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 16 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 17 | Huey ( 1908 ) believed that some kind of internal auditory imagery of words was a legitimate feature of skilled silent reading , and devoted an entire chapter of his book to the functioning of inner speech . |
| 18 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 19 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 25 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ The idea of believing that all cyclist are handbag snatchers is ludicrous . |
| 28 | I would do so again , believing that that relationship corresponds best with the reality of the processes which determine the composition and content of care within the NHS . |
| 29 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |