Example sentences of "believe such a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Davies , 55 , claimed he was fired because executives feared evidence might be produced that he was an arms dealer even though no-one believed such a thing . |
| 2 | Newsagent John Ellis also said he did not believe such a call would have much influence on Parliament . |
| 3 | Newsagent , John Ellis , said he did not believe such a call would have much influence on Parliament . |
| 4 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 5 | But what he has to say in his tale may represent what we might like to believe such a character 's ribald attitudes towards women , towards his fellow men , and towards conventional morality would predictably be . |
| 6 | I believe such a rapprochement IS possible . |
| 7 | I believe such a system to be inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive , ’ said Mr Kaufman . |
| 8 | But property analysts believe such a move will have little impact until up to 50,000 empty homes are taken off the market . |
| 9 | I believe such a statement would involve an outdated phrenological approach which implied that the brain was a collection of specifically labelled boxes . |
| 10 | Far from being the obligatory rock biography ( I believe such an account would be demeaning to both group and fans ) , this book is an attempt to discover the basis of a communication phenomenon . |
| 11 | ‘ I would never have believed such a place existed , ’ she continued , glancing round the cave . |
| 12 | Mr Wilkinson , whose bill has a good chance of reaching the statute book , believes such a measure is necessary to curb growing surburban problem of overdevelopment through luxury blocks of flats being built by developers on plots previously occupied by a single house . |
| 13 | If the buyer believes such an obligation does not exist , then clearly the bill can be ignored and the matter does not proceed further as far as is concerned here . |
| 14 | CPRW believes such an investigation is desperately needed if we are to stem this slide into anarchy and social dissension . |
| 15 | He believes such an outcome would only irk independent software companies . |
| 16 | He believes such an outcome would only tick off independent software companies . |