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

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31 Although Robinson 's suggestions are attractive , Steers ( 1964 ) does not believe that all double spits can be explained as breached baymouth bars .
32 Although I know that he does , I do not believe that all parts of the House do share that view .
33 Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ?
34 Nevertheless , he does not believe that clerical workers have an identical status to the working class .
35 They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks .
36 I do not believe that British Rail has got it right .
37 Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose .
38 As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ .
39 In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it .
40 Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’
41 Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’
42 He insisted that he did not believe that any of them was right for him , in spite of the huge money that would be on offer .
43 But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent .
44 However , while ‘ [ t ] he Administration does not believe that any city is condemned to inevitable decline ’ ( US Department of Housing and Urban Development 1984 , p27 ) , the emphasis on comparative advantage and entrepreneurialism carried an inevitable warning .
45 We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society .
46 I do not believe that any other paint system can be applied as thinly as a watercolour wash and still yield as much colour brilliance .
47 Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for .
48 And , said Fenella , very firmly indeed , I will not believe that any of us are in danger .
49 I do not believe that any more could have been done — certainly not if the company had still been in the public sector .
50 However , I do not believe that any hon. Member would expect me to do what no other negotiating Minister has done , is doing or will do .
51 I emphasise that I do not believe that any individual or manager in the health service has done anything in this case which departs from the principles upon which the health service is built .
52 Local politicians do not believe that any new talks formula could be adopted before late summer or the autumn .
53 He did not believe that any such combinations would work , but he did not close his mind on continuing consultation .
54 on many occasions to the excellent work done by and the section eleven team , but we do not believe that any area is entitled to automatic exemption .
55 I do not believe that those questions have been properly thought through .
56 I do not believe that those countries will be half as eager to abandon their new-found sovereignty so soon after regaining it .
57 If I did not believe that those changes would benefit patients , I would not have approved the application .
58 Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced .
59 Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils .
60 I do not believe that these anomalies are sufficiently important to justify further organisational tinkering , to the detriment of the APB 's ability to get on with its work .
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