Example sentences of "believe that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many owners — probably correctly — believed that prices would ultimately rise again , and few wanted to sell land at dramatically lower prices than had been initially paid to acquire it . |
| 2 | He believed that Germanisation would bring the Poles security and a place in the world that they could not otherwise expect . |
| 3 | He believed that work would go ahead , although it would be delayed and might take until 2004 to complete . |
| 4 | Like his fellow Republicans he believed that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy . |
| 5 | However , by July there were signs of more serious trouble and City analysts believed that Eurotunnel might need a further £1bn to pay for a near tripling in the cost of the shuttle fleet and meet the rapidly increasing costs of labour and materials in South East England . |
| 6 | By the late 1950s some European leaders , including ( to Soviet concern ) the West Germans , believed that Europeans should share in the control of NATO 's nuclear arsenal , and in 1958 General de Gaulle proposed a US-British-French ‘ directorate ’ to define the West 's global strategy . |
| 7 | They believed that inflation would go up and that interest rates would go up , which would clearly lead to higher unemployment in Yorkshire and Humberside . |
| 8 | UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on a visit to Turkey on April 21-22 said that he believed that Turkey should be included in the Matutes plan ( the EC 's development programme for the Mediterranean basin ) . |
| 9 | But I doggedly believed that things would change , that they could only get better , yet when I reached the outcrop I wailed with despair . |
| 10 | When they spoke in the debate just before the war , Neil Kinnock and Gerald Kaufman said that a vote for the adjournment would not be a vote for war , that we believed that sanctions should be given longer . |
| 11 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 12 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 13 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 14 | Thomas Malthus , first theorist of the dependency society and the true ancestor of present Conservative policies ( rather than Adam Smith , the preferred model ) , believed that women must always come off worst in the ‘ disgraceful ’ condition of poverty . |
| 15 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 16 | He said Labour believed that citizens should work together for the good of the community . |
| 17 | Rebecca believed that Lissa could bring about her downfall , and she was almost bound to try to do something about it . |
| 18 | He took good care of his men and he believed that soldiers should stay out of politics . |
| 19 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 20 | It has been seen that French wartime planners believed that France could gain from European economic co-operation . |
| 21 | Becher ( 1978 ) denied that a general ideological consensus about educational ends is ‘ necessary in theory ’ ; in practice he believed that teachers can , and do , negotiate a working consensus , usually framed in terms of basic minima . |
| 22 | The influential Rafael Rodriguez ( who at first refused government positions , but gave advice on economic matters ) believed that Cuba could not rely on the Western capitalist countries ( accustomed to regarding Cuba as their sugar-bowl ) for the assistance necessary to develop an industrial economy . |
| 23 | The Basques , romantics to a man , believed that Fate would give Biarritz a helping hand . |
| 24 | But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society . |
| 25 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 26 | They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments . |
| 27 | The government believed that BT could reduce the real price of phone calls in subsequent years for two reasons : unusually good opportunities for cost-saving technical advances , and a previous lethargy as a public industry which it was hoped privatization would dispel . |
| 28 | Berlin was a potential ‘ flash-point ’ and few believed that Germany could remain divided forever , but in a sense both sides were satisfied with what they held : Russia had its defence glacis in the East ; America had given confidence and protection to Western Europe through Marshall aid and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) . |
| 29 | Genscher told a news conference that Germany believed that Albania should be accepted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Council of Europe and should receive aid from the Group of 24 . |
| 30 | Lenin believed that bureaucracy would become redundant after a proletarian revolution which would provide for the instant revocability of every civil servant , the reduction of official salaries and the simplification of control and accounting functions in society . |