Example sentences of "not believe [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 No one wants to see students forced to abandon their studies for financial reasons and no one wants to see students in hardship , but I do not believe that students are abandoning their studies for financial reasons .
2 I do not believe that magistrates will be able to show any greater compassion or understanding that our own elected members .
3 I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well .
4 Speakers at a Beverley antislavery meeting in 1824 did not believe that slaves needed ‘ foreign stimulus ’ to make them rebel ; their own sufferings were sufficient .
5 But the white man does not believe that cattle are payment for taking someone 's life . ’
6 She made exhaustion into a political virility symbol , and was foolishly critical of those who did not believe that decisions were best taken in a state of prostration . ’
7 I do not believe that things like that normally happen in a lifetime . ’
8 Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims .
9 Piaget does not believe that concepts take their origin from linguistic structures .
10 Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later .
11 Although he holds that value can be realized in the absence of consciousness , Moore does not believe that situations not involving consciousness can be very good .
12 The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved .
13 If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries .
14 The Labour Party does not believe that councils or schools should promote homosexuality , and I hope that no-one in the Committee has any doubt about that ...
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