Example sentences of "reason believe that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are , however , at least three good reasons to believe that the gloom over jobs is overdone .
2 There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so .
3 There are reasons to believe that the association may be a primary affect of drug treatment , which could mediate some of the pathological changes associated with NSAID use rather than a secondary consequence of these changes .
4 There is no reason to believe that the incomers brought any large amount of capital with them , although some may have had help at the start from their families .
5 The decision in Tameside may be contrasted with ASLEF ( No. 2 ) where the trade union 's complaint that the minister had no reason to believe that the members were not behind their leaders was not supported by the court .
6 But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor .
7 There is , however , every reason to believe that the insect head arose by the coalescence of a number of body segments and a non-segmental anteriorly-placed acron homologous with the Annelid prostomium .
8 However , there is no reason to believe that the sample is unrepresentative in any way .
9 ( 6 ) If the offer is conditional ( which it invariably is ) the offeror should have every reason to believe that the conditions will be satisfied if he is to comply with the terms of Rule 2.5(a). ( 7 ) The board of the target company is entitled to be satisfied that the offeror is , or will be , in a position to implement the offer in full ( Rule 1(c) ) .
10 Possibly goods may have been smuggled out without paying duty , although this last should not be exaggerated , because there is no reason to believe that the level of smuggling varied markedly from one period to another , and because with bulk commodities the possible gains were small and the risk of penalties was high ( 66 , pp.21–5 ) .
11 In the case of innocent infringement ( if the defendant did not know and had no reason to believe that the semiconductor design right subsisted in the article ) damages are not available although other remedies may be , such as an account of profits .
12 There is every reason to believe that the recession is coming to an end .
13 There is certainly no reason to believe that the electricity industry generally wasted investment resources in the manner of , for example , the nationalised railway industry in the same period , which ( far from making even the minimal return required by the public sector ) incurred mounting annual losses , yet persisted in uneconomic investment programmes .
14 Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population .
15 So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) .
16 The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process .
17 Nor was there any reason to believe that the Conservatives would support an Asquith government when Asquith had been responsible for turning them out of office .
18 Whatever had happened in space , I had reason to believe that the displacement in time must have been relatively slight .
19 Some men certainly lost their estates , although they might recover them later as political fortunes changed , but there is no real reason to believe that the estates themselves were normally impoverished by the fighting .
20 Battuta put up with all this for he had reason to believe that the Sultan would amply reward him for his efforts .
21 While not for one moment can the appalling state of housing in many of the major English cities be denied , there is no reason to believe that the problems of poor housing and underprivilege are any less acute among the rural as opposed to the urban poor : they are merely less obvious and less concentrated in numbers .
22 The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection .
23 We see no reason to believe that the market wo n't continue to steadily increase .
24 As a result , the numbers of further education teachers undertaking these courses grew from 795 in 1975 to 1,207 in 1981 and there is reason to believe that the demand for places exceeds the present supply .
25 I shall tell him that we have every reason to believe that the bomber was carrying a smuggled explosive device aboard , that its detonation was triggered by a radio wave and that we have the miscreant responsible in our hands .
26 Many older people have never had a satisfactory sexual relationship , for a variety of reasons , and if this is so there is no reason to believe that the period of old age is likely to see new beginnings in this respect .
27 And as one of Althusser 's commentators reminds us , ‘ Not only is there no special reason to believe that the subjects constituted and distributed by these mechanisms should be constituted so as to ‘ understand ’ the mechanisms by which they are constituted but , on the contrary , it is a condition of operation of many of the mechanisms that they are not understood by the subjects they ‘ constitute ’ . ’
28 In which case , the absence of random assignment , to use Lieberson 's rendering of the problem , presents special difficulties if " there is reason to believe that the subjects thereby placed in each condition differ in other ways that themselves have a bearing on the outcome of interest to the researcher " .
29 We have good reason to believe that the Southend job was one of a string of maybe six post-office robberies .
30 In fact there is no reason to believe that the Franks were involved in any long-distance migration : archaeology and history suggest that they originated in the lands immediately to the east of the Rhine .
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