Example sentences of "believe that [noun sg] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any action which contradicts these laws — whether it is the working class believing that parliamentary reform can eradicate the exploitative nature of capitalism or capitalists believing that reform can eradicate the ultimate demands for fundamental and revolutionary change from the working class — is defined merely as an expression of false consciousness . |
| 2 | Do you believe that man can levitate ? ’ |
| 3 | They do n't hate government ; but they do n't believe that government can do everything . |
| 4 | Whichever way the outcome goes in an individual case , I do not believe that society can lose . |
| 5 | The sufferer 's disease gets back into " the driving seat " and he or she comes to believe that life can be managed alone and that is questionable , despite all previous evidence , whether he or she truly has addictive disease after all . |
| 6 | Moreover , it stands in dazzling contrast to the sombre pessimism of most novels by white writers who seem to suffer what Alice Walker herself defines as a debilitating sense of ‘ cosmic guilt ’ and who have largely ceased to believe that literature can actually do anything . |
| 7 | Those who support the cultural deprivation theory tend to believe that education can play a large part in remedying social inequality , while Marxists believe that education is an essential part of the process of reproducing inequality . |
| 8 | However , there is no reason to believe that behaviour can not be switched by simpler means such as false cues . |
| 9 | There are conceptual and methodological problems to overcome , and the need to resist the tendency to believe that QOL can be assessed with a single quickly applied composite measure . |
| 10 | Yet Russians with bank accounts abroad will probably be among the most reluctant to believe that theory can be turned into practice . |
| 11 | ‘ The majority of us , who would not extend the offence of rape to married couples cohabiting at the time of the act of sexual intercourse , believe that rape can not be considered in the abstract as merely ‘ sexual intercourse without consent ’ . |
| 12 | Well , for my part , I believe that progress can often run away with itself , and when that happens , it needs regulation . |
| 13 | Many still believe that finance can only be as strong as local manufacturing . |
| 14 | It 's believed that stress can actually depress the immune system , leaving us pretty to every cold and bout of flu , and also to more serious complaints . |
| 15 | It 's believed that pollution can form substances in our body known as free radicals which speed up ageing . |
| 16 | Parent Network believes that parenting can be learned , and that improved communication can do wonders for family harmony . |
| 17 | Furnham , in his study Culture Shock believes that training can overcome personality difficulties that come to the fore in this experience . |
| 18 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |