Example sentences of "believe [pron] like [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That 's partly because , being unaccustomed to serious illness , they ca n't believe something like that can happen to them , partly because they do n't want to believe it . |
2 | ‘ Only humans could believe something like that . |
3 | But EEI President Thomas Kuhn acknowledged that even the most optimistic environmentalists do not believe anything like that number of electric vehicles will be on the streets , even in the next 20 years . |
4 | I believe something like this to be very much the case . |
5 | Again , I believe something like this to be very much the case . |
6 | For if I had believed the opposite of 2 , my belief 1 would not be justified unless I also believe something like 3 . |