Example sentences of "believe in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped short of issuing a blanket backing for the Tories , saying he would vote Liberal Democrat in his own east London constituency because he still believed in proportional representation . |
| 2 | Whereas many otherwise ‘ progressive ’ disciples of Rousseau believed in controlling the entire environment of the child and programming its mind with carefully selected sense impressions , Wordsworth and Dorothy believed in complete freedom : ‘ Till a child is four years old he needs no other companions than the flowers , the grass , the cattle , the sheep that scamper away from him , when he makes a vain unexpecting chase after them , the pebbles upon the road etc . |
| 3 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 4 | He believed in collective Cabinet government and abhorred anything that smacked of an over-mighty premiership . |
| 5 | He believed in that case the main danger would come from Wollo soldiery pursuing the Shoans into the town , and passing close to the Legation . |
| 6 | He er he believed in other punishment Lines and that description But er I liked that chap er very nice chap . |
| 7 | Unlike Lord Cobham 's flirtation with the gothic style , he really believed in gothic architecture as a statement of social values . |
| 8 | Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalin had angered the Chinese Communist leaders , as they believed in rigid adherence to the Stalin type government , and they disapproved of any form of ‘ co-existence ’ . |
| 9 | Mademoiselle was n't quite sure whether she really believed in this spider or not . |
| 10 | Stalin had observed , when the treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland was signed , that Russia believed in true equality between states regardless of respective might . |
| 11 | Linda Agran , a film executive , told me that she chose a female gynaecologist , Wendy Love , to do her hysterectomy because she believed in positive discrimination . |
| 12 | They believed in exact equality between man and woman . |
| 13 | A non-revolutionary socialist , she believed in legislative action . |
| 14 | He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā . |
| 15 | The situation today is divorced from what Mill/Rousseau envisaged , each believing in participatory democracy contained within the ideal of a ‘ rational , active , and informed democratic man ’ . |
| 16 | This government is not believing in integrated strategy , it never has done and it never will do and with the current the Government expansion plans it is becoming less and less likely . |
| 17 | It seems that there are definite survival advantages to believing in free will and responsibility for one 's actions . |
| 18 | I trust all parties in this house will unite , not only in believing in local government but in agreeing that local government should set and maintain the highest possible standards of conduct when spending the very substantial sums of money parliament votes to it . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you did n't believe in that kind of thing . ’ |
| 20 | How can you all believe in that sort of thing ! ’ she said , picking up a book and pretending to read it . |
| 21 | I hope you do n't believe in stupid nonsense like that ? ’ |
| 22 | Reagan 's suite had been given a special phone number for the occasion , but the postmistress did n't believe in such nonsense . |
| 23 | I do n't believe in such nonsense . ’ |
| 24 | But they would also make a more damning inquiry : ‘ If the Labour Party does not believe in democratic socialism , what is the Labour Party for ? ’ |
| 25 | While we may not believe in everlasting life , while we have it , we do believe that our life is everlasting . |
| 26 | ‘ We do believe in regional government , but a regional government that draws powers from Whitehall so the powers currently exercised by central government are brought to the North and other regions . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do not believe in black majority rule — ever , ’ he thundered . |
| 28 | ‘ She does not believe in Western culture . |
| 29 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 30 | Every one of us , we would n't devote our time , our precious time serving in local government if we did n't believe in local government and did n't want to provide the best possible services to the people of this city . |