Example sentences of "believe that [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to Bourdieu , Baudrillard believed that people have become merely the vehicles for expressing the differences between objects . |
| 2 | Carkesse believed that madmen vent their rage by words on air , poets by ink on paper . |
| 3 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 4 | On taking office Sandys did , indeed , warn the Board of Admiralty that he believed that carriers cost more than they were worth . |
| 5 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 6 | It may be that , as more scientific information is gathered on fish physiology , the evidence for believing that fish feel pain might become overwhelming and the Society may have to come out firmly against this sport . |
| 7 | Piaget does not believe that concepts take their origin from linguistic structures . |
| 8 | In my experience it 's always , it 's higher than low pay , and I do n't believe that companies go to an area because the payment of wages is low if everything else is not favourable to them as well , in fact low pay in itself does not attract , and conversely , I do n't think the thought 's an impossibility , because I 've talked to potential inward investors , and jokingly , sort of teased them and if you get enough companies coming into Shropshire , then inevitably wages will go up , and they 're intelligent people , and they realize it , and they not the magic ball , and of course when local shopkeepers are concerned about their businesses , then the amount of wages that are available to spend has an effect on your local small company . |
| 9 | The Government really does believe that tenants have fallen victim to what William Waldegrave , who ceased to be Minister of Housing halfway through the Bill , called the dread drug of dependency . |
| 10 | But I do believe that women experience another , relentless denial of their powers , which begins as soon as they can speak , if not before , and makes the act of writing for them primarily an act of rebellion . |
| 11 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 12 | A leader may believe that individuals need coercing into following a particular direction , or alternatively may believe that encouragement is the key . |
| 13 | If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries . |
| 14 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 15 | By and large I do not believe that people want for profit organisations running human service delivery . |
| 16 | Erm if you look at the next speech he makes , he says , do you believe that people learn nothing from history ? |
| 17 | Both books talk of this power as being abnormal , but I can not believe that people have the power to just FLEX and move an object . |
| 18 | No , I am appalled at people , I ca n't believe that people behave the w er take the attitude the way er |
| 19 | It 's still a very small market , but we do believe that consumers want meat produced in an environmentally sensitive and natural way . |
| 20 | I have every reason to believe that authorities have made use of these powers . |
| 21 | But it is difficult to believe that directors do not give at least some consideration to the impact of their decisions on employees in any event , regardless of the section . |
| 22 | But in this respect too there is good reason to believe that things have recently begun to go seriously wrong : |
| 23 | It is difficult to believe that pupils gain a great deal more from being in a group of six rather than seven pupils ; or that the curriculum of a 43-pupil school ( the average size derived from these statistics ) , can be much more enriched by seven rather than six teachers . |
| 24 | People have always needed to believe that individuals make films . |
| 25 | So skilled an illustrator was Rackham , that the reader begins to believe that trees have faces , mermaids gather shells beneath the sea and fairies fly through Kensington Gardens . |
| 26 | And we 're old-fashioned enough to believe that children come after marriage , not before . ’ |
| 27 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |
| 28 | It is not essential to Freud , to believe that people have an innate sense of guilt about murdering their near kin , or , or committing incest . |
| 29 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 30 | Chris Young , Chelmsford : ‘ If you were to believe that people buy a record by The Smiths because they wish to change something , even if it is only the music industry , then you are being very naïve about things . |