Example sentences of "believe that their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speculation about whether the Assassin troops believed that their experiences in the Alamut gardens fitted out as Paradise were really a dream , or whether the gardens ' compliant slaves were all too real in the flesh is thus academic . |
| 2 | The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added . |
| 3 | The decision was not well received by those Americans who believed that their allies should concentrate on the provision of conventional forces . |
| 4 | Some sections of the press were apprehensive about the ‘ un-Englishness ’ of an armed police , but within a year 821 police constables had received instruction in the use of firearms — although some of their senior officers believed that their men were ‘ nervous and excitable ’ , ‘ men of excitable temperament ’ who were ‘ not to be trusted to use revolvers with discretion ’ . |
| 5 | Exposure to hostile action by host governments might be substantially increased if the host governments believed that their nationals could run the plants . |
| 6 | Back Up the Hearse and Let Them Sniff the Flowers is based on his own time as a water-filter salesman , ringing on doorbells and brow-beating mug-punters into believing that their lives wo n't be complete without the little gizmo on offer ( at £230 plus VAT ) . |
| 7 | Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’ |
| 8 | Fifth , the Thatcher Governments have made major changes to owner-occupation and share ownership and this has resulted in many small wealth holders believing that their interests are now more closely allied with the rich , to the exclusion of people on low incomes . |
| 9 | It also includes those who prefer to remain unemployed , believing that their incomes from social security benefits do not make it worthwhile to take up a job . |
| 10 | The issue which divided public opinion largely revolved around the ineffectiveness of the prison system and the ease with which convicts could bamboozle prison chaplains into believing that their characters had been reformed , thus securing their release on ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ , and there was little room fur the idea that the roots of crime might be found in social conditions . |
| 11 | ‘ There was some resistance in the early days , ’ says Mr Bristow , ‘ with booksellers believing that their jobs would be eroded . |
| 12 | Some people do seriously believe that their records sound better if the labels are smeared with ‘ neutralising cream ’ and stored with the sleeve notes pointing in a particular direction to align the printing inks . |
| 13 | However , there will be , for a very long time , others who will believe that their interests and ambitions can best be served if the First Choice were to be retained as the basic guide to human development . |
| 14 | Years later I was at first comforted to read that an adult man could express similar sentiments about himself : ‘ When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable . |
| 15 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |
| 16 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 17 | More and more Conservatives , in and out of the House , are coming to believe that their chances at the election would be stronger under a different leader . |
| 18 | They may come to believe that their thoughts , feelings and actions are under the control of an external force ( thought disorder ) . |
| 19 | Government intervention would inevitably follow if Governments had reason to believe that their interests were not being fairly served . |
| 20 | They came from a variety of schools and backgrounds and it is difficult to believe that their pupils are more immune to racial prejudice than those mentioned above , or that such wording does not encourage prejudice , albeit subconsciously . |
| 21 | Decisions on priorities between these groups can generate some heat , particularly if students come to believe that their needs are taking second place to those of numerically smaller groups of faculty and researchers . |
| 22 | Given the number of titled ladies in the volume , it is hard to believe that their struggles were absolutely equivalent to that of , say , Aphra Behn who at the end of her life was brought to desperate circumstances . |
| 23 | A disturbing number of librarians now appear to believe that their jobs may legitimately be used to proselytize , for political and other beliefs , and to be unaware that these are highly damaging views for librarians to hold . |
| 24 | In particular they believe that their beliefs make a difference to the consequences of their acts , that their acts impose duties , confer rights , grant permissions , and so on , in part because they believe that their acts do so . |
| 25 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 26 | Ken Norris and others ( see Bibliography ) believe that their sounds are produced in the nasal structures below the blow-hole . |
| 27 | There are those who believe that their houses are built over tombs , unknown to archaeologists , and that the owners still supplement their incomes by selling off the contents bit by bit on the black market . |
| 28 | In particular they believe that their beliefs make a difference to the consequences of their acts , that their acts impose duties , confer rights , grant permissions , and so on , in part because they believe that their acts do so . |
| 29 | This year , despite the injuries which have befallen them , and the unfortunate suspension of the experienced Kieran McKeever , Derry believe that their preparations have been going better than last year . |
| 30 | Again , this is not radically different from the attitudes of many parents towards children of higher intelligence , who believe that their children should experience pre-school education , perhaps attending a play school or nursery from the age of three onwards , and then encouraging them to pursue further education at school leaving age . |