Example sentences of "reason believe that [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government intervention would inevitably follow if Governments had reason to believe that their interests were not being fairly served . |
| 2 | to get skilled advice if they have reason to believe that their teenager may be genuinely homosexual . |
| 3 | Mentally abnormal people can not consent , though the accused has a defence to indecent assault if he did not know and had no reason to believe that his victim was defective : see ss.14(4) and 15(4) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 . |
| 4 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 5 | But I only have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable if I have reason to believe quite generally that events which I have not observed are similar to events which I have observed . |
| 6 | Therefore I can have no reason to believe that my experience is a reliable guide , and hence have no reason for any belief about events beyond my experience and so can not have knowledge of them . |
| 7 | I have no reason to believe that my son was contemplating ending his life and he had to my knowledge no enemies . ’ |
| 8 | If you have to use technical terms and you have any reason to believe that your reader may not understand them , then you should explain them . |
| 9 | We have reason to believe that your boyfriend is in possession of a considerable amount of LSD . |
| 10 | Do you have any reason to believe that your horse might be the target of international intrigue ? ’ |
| 11 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
| 12 | Doubtless many social and economic forces have contributed to this trend ; but there is good reason to believe that our attitudes to child-rearing play a not insignificant part . |