Example sentences of "believe in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was bad news for writers of space Westerns but good news for the small number of us who believed in black holes at that time . |
| 2 | This was bad news for writers of space westerns , but very hopeful for the small number of us who believed in black holes at that time : it was the first positive evidence that neutron stars existed . |
| 3 | In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow . |
| 4 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 5 | She believed in fat babies and at the time I was born , during the war , little was known about nutrition or cholesterol , nor that heart attacks were preventable . |
| 6 | Nanny Fanny was also a Jewess , which caused a lot of bad feeling because Smallfry called herself a Catholic and so they believed in different pars of the Bible and were supposed to go to church on different days of the week . |
| 7 | The argument gains much strength by considering the case of theoretical authority , i.e. authority for believing in certain propositions . |
| 8 | It 's something I 'm very proud to say that I am , cos I believe in equal rights and that 's what feminism is , is believing in equal rights for women . |
| 9 | You could even be right , head , the little cheat almost had me believing in blood-spitting puppets . |
| 10 | Every day , we can either be driven by the past — repeating our customary patterns and habits , believing in old limitations — or we can be propelled by our future , by our Dreams , by what we are becoming . |
| 11 | This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them . |
| 12 | I DO N'T EVEN BELIEVE IN DIRTY TRICKS . |
| 13 | Although estimates were attractive , they were not unrealistically underpriced : ‘ I do n't believe in low estimates for superb things ’ , says Sotheby 's French furniture expert Thierry Millerand . |
| 14 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 15 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 16 | It concerned a man who did not believe in real divorces . |
| 17 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |
| 18 | I said , I 'm sorry I 'm a quaker , I I will not , we do n't believe in double standards . |
| 19 | Do the different religions believe in the same god in different ways , or do they believe in different gods ? |
| 20 | But do they believe in the same god or do they believe in different gods ? |
| 21 | Terry did n't believe in social workers , left-wing politicians , radical lawyers , liberals or gradual improvement . |
| 22 | did n't believe in educational psychologists , inverted commas . |
| 23 | The bean casserole really was n't bad and was followed by a savoury because Aunt Lou did not believe in sweet puddings . |
| 24 | Mr Tim , by the way , does not acknowledge the modern concept of the language laboratory ; nor does he cleave to the antique idea of the library of books ; still less does he believe in separating students of different ability . |
| 25 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 26 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 27 | It is a pity , because what dates his book is not its methods but the readiness to believe in fearsome things from outer space . |
| 28 | He can not bring himself to believe in dark powers and evil forces as expressed in biblical language . |
| 29 | In Compact the future entails a fundamental undermining of the reader 's need to believe in fictional events … . the detail and intensity are such that we do believe that what is predicted not only will occur but is occurring/has occurred , while at the same time not occurring , abolished , a mere fiction of words . |
| 30 | Is not it disgraceful that the Government are destroying living standards , yet they claim to believe in human values ? |