Example sentences of "believe that [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that packing atoms together inside crystalline solids could produce so much pressure that the atoms would be squeezed together and hence fusion would occur in a test-tube . |
| 2 | Most observers believed that south Korea would eventually be unified by north Korea with the support or at the instigation of the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 4 | He believed that Money Advice was here to stay , whatever happened to the economy . |
| 5 | He believed that public outrage about the prostitution trade could be far more usefully channelled into forming local vigilante groups , as residents in the St Jude 's Parish of King 's Cross had done . |
| 6 | Bakker believed that dinosaur speed could , reasonably accurately enough , be worked out from the angle of the limb joints . |
| 7 | Respondents felt that safeguards should be introduced where exemptions were granted : 67% thought that only wholly owner managed companies should be exempted , 85% believed that minority shareholders should have the right to require an audit , 76% wanted a compilation report prepared by a qualified accountant , and 86% wanted a statement by the directors acknowledging responsibility for the accounts . |
| 8 | Some idea of the potential gains from a single currency can be had by looking at previous historical periods when people really believed that exchange rates were fixed . |
| 9 | Many people wrongly believed that setaside land would soon bloom with wildflowers like this ancient Cotswold grazing meadow , which is now a nature reserve . |
| 10 | To start with the good news , 77% of respondents believed that audit regulation had improved the quality of auditing in their practices . |
| 11 | The Government of the day believed that takeover activity was the means by which the stockmarkets ensured that companies were motivated to become as efficient and successful as possible . |
| 12 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 13 | There was a political culture of stability ‘ thriving on the creation of symbolic dragons — the English , the Tories , the Church of England , Twickenham ’ ( Griffiths , 1987 , p. 215 ) , a lack of a corporate revolution and an inherent conservatism reflected by one councillor who believed that borrowing money to finance capital expenditure was tantamount to creative accounting . |
| 14 | Mr Shaban , an economic researcher working for the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee in Gaza City , believed that writing letters to prisoners-of-conscience in other countries gave Palestinians in Gaza a sense of the true value of freedom . |
| 15 | There are grounds therefore for believing that superpower activity in the Middle East may now be in a phase of decline . |
| 16 | House is perhaps mistaken in believing that individualist values have always held sway in the UK . |
| 17 | There are doubts , however , as to whether users will choose to implement encryption , believing that authentication measures are adequate . |
| 18 | As a delinquent nine-year-old at his prep school , he had once been required by the headmaster to write out in his best handwriting the whole of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes , old Gumboil , economical in this as in all matters , believing that writing lines should combine punishment with literary and religious education . |
| 19 | Hot fusion budgets on the line ; tritium production for weapons ; India believing that test-tube fusion would become a classified secret in the West . |
| 20 | Secondly , one might accept the view that efficiency should not be ignored in analysing the firm , without believing that monopoly issues are relevant in only a few situations . |
| 21 | Instead he sent increased numbers of " advisers " to train the South Vietnamese in the arts of " counter-insurgency " , believing that guerilla tactics could be met successfully by expert groups like the Green Berets . |
| 22 | Believing that employee share ownership is an important contributor to employee involvement in the business , the Group has continued to extend its sharesave scheme internationally . |
| 23 | Keynesians see money supply as less important , but even they do not believe that money supply can be ignored . |
| 24 | She does not believe that day care can substitute for the one-to-one relationship between mother and child , and favours the introduction of greater financial incentives and other support for the family care of children . |
| 25 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 26 | They do n't believe that government promises of an increase in benefits will properly compensate the pensioners , and worry that those just above the level eligible for benefits will be hit hardest of all . |
| 27 | But Roderick Henderson , who runs the chef division of recruitment consultant Berkeley Scott , does not believe that contract catering is always a financially rewarding sector in which to work . |
| 28 | I do not believe that M. Guérigny did feel responsible . |
| 29 | On the whole , correspondents did not believe that church musicians receive as much encouragement as they deserve . |
| 30 | He did not believe that council reform should be at the top of the list of problems to be dealt with in Scotland . |