Example sentences of "believe that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 2 | This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary . |
| 3 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 4 | Another important implication of behavioural rights such as these , is that if you believe in your own rights then , to be consistent , you must also believe that other people enjoy the same rights . |
| 5 | We might believe that other people are selfish , greedy and unpleasant , or that folk are generally kind and loving . |
| 6 | As far as I can make out , Deanes does n't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 7 | User expectations are often unreasonably high ; use of administrative computing systems encourages bureaucrats to believe that environmental data can just as readily be analysed and used to support decisions . |
| 8 | Those who have it will be better at forming relationships of all sorts because they do not find it impossible to believe that other people could actually respect them and care for them . |
| 9 | Some kind of realism is important whether the movie itself is ‘ realistic ’ in reflecting the real world more or less as we perceive it or believe that other people do , or whether it is clearly a fantasy of some kind , set in the future or the distant past or another galaxy or in a present where some of the rules have been changed or abolished , eg time travel is possible , robot androids pass for human , most of the population are zombies , animals speak English , people mix with cartoon characters , or what you will . |
| 10 | We believe that retired people who have worked all their lives are entitled to a decent standard of living . |
| 11 | We believe that young people should be free to choose between college , work-based training and sixth form studies . |
| 12 | We believe that mass media and other forms of communication must contribute to peace , justice and understanding . |
| 13 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 14 | His argument may have turned out indecisively , but Halley evidently believed that scientific data were relevant to theological questions . |
| 15 | Sister Clare Lewington , who runs the Royal Free Prostate Laboratory where she helps conduct treatment trials , believes that increasing media coverage of prostate disease is resulting in more self-referrals to her hospital . |
| 16 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 17 | The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records . |
| 18 | The Green Party believes that local people have the right to decide how their communities are run . |