Example sentences of "not believe in the " in BNC.

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1 No , I do not believe in the audition system .
2 Speaking the day after Neil Kinnock depicted education and training as the commanding heights of every modern economy , Mr Straw insisted : ‘ We do not believe in the best for the few , but the best for all .
3 He did not believe in the 1952 Global Strategy paper 's concept of a period of ‘ broken-backed war ’ after an indecisive nuclear exchange in Europe that would give the Navy a worthwhile role in the Atlantic in global war .
4 The local magistrate might not believe in the frayed elastic , either , if the McReady family were pillars of the kirk .
5 The spirit of our times does not believe in the sacrifice of private happiness for public duty , and this can be taken as a sign of moral decline .
6 If I could not believe in the sovereignty of God when it was my son lying there how could I tell someone who came for counselling , suffering the whims of a very insensitive partner , ‘ You continue to honour God in this situation .
7 Although Jonadab did not believe in the old country superstition that an elder bush planted by a house kept away witches , he was a firm believer that it deflected lightning during a storm .
8 But the attitudes and actions of those who do not believe in the immortality of the soul might differ from those who do believe .
9 This does not mean that I do not believe in the existence of genuine déjà vu experiences — indeed I have already shown that I do .
10 I do not believe in the SNP , but in realistic terms the only chance of seeing a society based on social justice is through independence .
11 Charles Lamb could not believe in the Pedlar who narrates most of Book i , and Keats was suspicious of ‘ poetry that has a palpable design on us ’ .
12 To be specific about it , many of the Christian circles that I enter from time to time do not believe in the Devil .
13 ' ( But as we know , a great many Christians caught up in talking about social activism of various kinds do not believe in the Devil . )
14 They did not believe in the coming of the Messiah , especially the popular idea of the Messiah who would free the people from the Romans .
15 Some people do not believe in Jesus because they do not believe in the miracles .
16 The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred .
17 Even if one does not believe in the principle of intellectual conservation of quantity , the same amount of study time is being poured into different shaped vessels , one tall and narrow , the other flat and wide .
18 I do not believe in the course of the protracted discussions about this case that anyone seriously proposed that all Cabinet deliberations should be revealed to the world at large within minutes of their taking place .
19 Wigg did not believe in the doctrine that you did not kick a man when he was down .
20 I do not believe in the doctrine that every man must stand on his own two feet , especially when he has a wooden leg .
21 He was also very tall and very charming , and he gave me to understand , although he never stated it , that he did not believe in the war or in a German victory .
22 Trembling with the fear that you might not believe in the truth or my love .
23 The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues can save money if they do not believe in the nuclear deterrent , and it is high time that they told the country what their priorities are .
24 He did not believe in the new property tax ; he believed that it would constitute theft from the old ladies living down the road , who would consequently vote against the Tories .
25 Babangida reaffirmed his government 's commitment to civilian rule and denied that the creation of the new states would prolong the life of the military regime ; speaking on Sept. 3 he said that he did not believe in the perpetuity of military rule .
26 ‘ You do not believe in the supernatural ? ’
27 Councillor has said that we have , that his group do not believe in the testing of seven year olds .
28 She does not believe in the Vance-Owen plan for the division of Bosnia into ethnically-defined regions and says the UN peace keeping forces are failing the country .
29 The Conservative Government does not believe in the need for a broadly educated workforce .
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