Example sentences of "believe [that] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 2 | The reason was , I think , that the Africans were deeply suspicious of Ian Smith and believed that any agreement which was devised to give them full democratic rights would in fact never be implemented . |
| 3 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 4 | Only the utterly naïve or the determinedly blind could believe that any government activity near to election time does not have electoral implications . |
| 5 | In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it . |
| 6 | But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent . |
| 7 | Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for . |
| 8 | However , while ‘ [ t ] he Administration does not believe that any city is condemned to inevitable decline ’ ( US Department of Housing and Urban Development 1984 , p27 ) , the emphasis on comparative advantage and entrepreneurialism carried an inevitable warning . |
| 9 | on many occasions to the excellent work done by and the section eleven team , but we do not believe that any area is entitled to automatic exemption . |
| 10 | I do n't believe that any obstruction on your behalf at this stage will be looked on kindly . ’ |
| 11 | Well then I ca n't believe that any garage would , would refuse to give you a ten piece for their own machine . |
| 12 | I would still find it very hard to believe that any evidence of mitigation would justify a non-custodial sentence , to someone who has broken twenty-three bones in their child 's body . |
| 13 | It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis |
| 14 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 15 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 16 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 17 | It would be foolish to believe that any group of people can interact without a political undercurrent . |
| 18 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 19 | Unfortunately many still stand in such awe of the computer as to believe that any analysis achieved thereby must be correct . |
| 20 | Without its support we still have no reason to believe that any agreement will be reached behind the veil of ignorance . |
| 21 | It is hard to believe that any business whose life blood is communications could lag behind in using modern information technology , but that is how it is with British public relations . |
| 22 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 23 | Although we shall support the Bill because we believe that any measure that alleviates the terrible problem of repossessions is to be welcomed , the way in which the Minister presented it suggests that there is no problem . |
| 24 | They also believe that any man who is honest , truthful , and good can serve his King and country . |
| 25 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 26 | Around the world , many cultures believe that any harm done to a dolphin may cause ill-fortune or sickness . |
| 27 | We believe that any strategy which relies almost entirely on defensive measures as a response to the damaging symptoms of development , is ultimately bound to fail . |
| 28 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 29 | Though he 'd never really believed that any woman would behave that coldly and that violently in response to an attack . |
| 30 | And in the recent article he had read on the subject , even the sergeant in charge of the course had not believed that any woman would take his one piece of infallible advice . |