Example sentences of "not believe that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But I do not believe that financial rewards are themselves enough or are important except in the Herzberg terms .
2 We do not believe that general practitioners will be overburdened .
3 Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election .
4 Dewey saw that there was a potential conflict between the ideal of education as an instrument and that of education as self-development , but he could not believe that such equally desirable ideals could ultimately be in contradiction one to the other .
5 We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations .
6 As with the comments of Heald , Shawcross and others after my documentary on the police , I do not believe that such an interview would attract that sort of attention today .
7 Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased .
8 I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor .
9 No limitations were written into the English and Welsh legislation , and I do not believe that such a limitation is appropriate in this case .
10 Carrington did not believe that such a thing could happen , or would .
11 I do not believe that such a case will ever be found .
12 I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim .
13 Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on .
14 I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time .
15 Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 .
16 We do not believe that that is correct .
17 I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom .
18 I do not believe that that will happen .
19 I do not believe that that would necessarily bring the help that the Croats think they need .
20 I do not believe that that has anything to do with the Government .
21 However , he is just offering us a knockabout contribution , and I do not believe that that will get the debate any further .
22 However , my Committee does not believe that that is the best way to deal with legislation .
23 Because when this guy put his head down , I just did not believe that that was
24 Treatment of non-specific infection in women is the same as for men , although some clinics do not believe that female contacts should be treated .
25 And I do not believe that 24.3 million dollars a year is the average reward for selling coconut milk and conch shells to honky tourists .
26 I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity .
27 But we do not believe that major organisational changes in the commercial sector are explained in these terms .
28 argument because the real reason for opposing the new clause is that the Government do not believe that private sector operations should be reviewed by any consumer body or consultative committee .
29 ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’
30 It does not believe that all parents have been informed of their rights under the Act and it is critical of the lack of training for parent governors .
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