Example sentences of "believe that [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that hundreds of the " veiled women " demonstrating in the streets of Teheran in favour of an Islam Republic were actually militant Communists dressed up . |
| 2 | Often these people believed that each of the components of nature — the forest , the rivers , the sky — was occupied and guarded by a jealous god , and they behaved as if that were the case . |
| 3 | He believed that many of these slips revealed some kind of sexual subconscious which suddenly ‘ accidentally ’ is brought to the conscious . |
| 4 | Franco believed that one of General Primo de Rivera 's mistakes had been to establish the provisional nature of his regime at the outset . |
| 5 | In this context , Greenpeace said it believed that some of the sprays were dangerous , and pointed out that they were banned in several countries . |
| 6 | The University had filed for patents , believing that millions of dollars could accrue if test-tube fusion were commercially practical , and the patent lawyers were concerned about what would happen if other groups found out the results and duplicated them . |
| 7 | Partly for historical reasons , such as the impact the Poor Law made on their memories , and partly as a result of their attitudes towards financial ‘ dependence ’ on the state , there are grounds for believing that some of these factors are more acutely felt by older people than other age groups . |
| 8 | Again , I do not believe that enough of the electorate can be persuaded to act on these grounds alone . |
| 9 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 10 | Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’ |
| 12 | He insisted that he did not believe that any of them was right for him , in spite of the huge money that would be on offer . |
| 13 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 14 | I do n't believe that any of the three could exist , or would want to exist independently , for the synthesis is absolutely perfect , the balance so delicate , that the next step up could only be Rapture and Heaven . |
| 15 | And , said Fenella , very firmly indeed , I will not believe that any of us are in danger . |
| 16 | So so I I I think Mr Mayor that although this debate has erm raised people 's erm eye a little , I do believe that most of the people here have got the wrong end of the stick in what was being proposed right . |
| 17 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 18 | I do not believe that either of these theories is plausible as a reading of postwar history or workable as a means of governing Britain … . |
| 19 | It is difficult to believe that many of the prestige projects discussed in Chapter 8 would have been contemplated in the absence of the very high volumes of aid reaching countries for other , more mundane , purposes . |
| 20 | I happen to believe that many of them are very well documented , even proved . |
| 21 | So much has been written about Monteverdi 's L'Orfeo that it may be difficult to believe that many of the puzzles can be answered through a study of Renaissance humanistic traditions . |
| 22 | Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms . |
| 23 | It was not an act of war and I have no reason to believe that one of your countrymen was responsible . |
| 24 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 25 | Are we to believe that all of this is due to shortage of investment ? |
| 26 | Thus although much has been achieved , it would be a mistake to believe that most of the problems have been solved . |
| 27 | It was hard to believe that most of these islands were populated and we often caught glimpses of island ferries plying industriously between lonely rockbound piers . |
| 28 | And although the Tude has plants in its waters , I am reluctant to believe that any of them are lilies ; for Chalais has suffered from the twentieth century as Aubeterre has not , and the Tude is polluted whereas the Dronne runs clear . |
| 29 | It is difficult to believe that any of the characters examined by Burdon could be selectively neutral . |
| 30 | But I mean , were led to believe that some of the people that you see sitting on the streets of Edinburgh begging are actually making a good living out of it ! |