Example sentences of "n't believe in the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I do n't believe in the fatal decline of the written word , ’ says Mr Fontaine , ‘ but we are competing all the time — not so much against television , because the screen image and the printed word complement each other , as against magazines , and against the time people spend getting to work and then their leisure time — against music and the cinema . ’
2 They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month .
3 ( I suppose RE lessons would be the only exception to this rule , but when you 've got an RE teacher that does n't believe in the existence of God and thinks that Jesus was an astronaut there 's a limit to how ‘ Christian ’ Religious Education really can be ! )
4 This story concerns the sounds of footsteps walking in the ballast ; no one was seen but the sounds were very convincing and one respects the account of this mystery from Mr Leslie , who certainly did n't believe in the supernatural , preferring to find a logical explanation of this sort of thing .
5 But they do n't believe in the notion ,
6 I do n't believe in the God the parson used to present to us three times on a Sunday . ’
7 ‘ I do n't believe in the launderette ’ , said one working-class housewife .
8 I just ca n't believe in the kind of death that the Egyptian world has .
9 Emstar chairman Richard Tinson claims there is a lot of interest in CHP schemes because ‘ people do n't believe in the low electricity prices ’ .
10 If you do n't believe in the fundamentals underlying the latest fashion , go back to " square one " and carefully examine ( and develop ) the basic principles on which you manage for profit .
11 But that was that was quite a good school , went through there via a Mr , he was a very nice teacher , very efficient , and he did n't believe in the cane , he did n't .
12 And Eustace did n't believe in the paranormal .
13 He did n't believe in the idea of people possessed by devils , because it seemed to him that that was only a way of trying to tidy up the world by pigeon-holing everything .
14 Except that I have a daughter who does n't believe in the extinction of the dodo .
15 I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to .
16 You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often .
17 Oh aye I do n't believe in the Y T Ss and that like .
18 Now , it 's not then that society does n't believe in the supernatural , we believe in the supernatural , society at large believes in the supernatural , the tragedy is that the natural man , the natural person however , as always is more willing to believe Satan 's mysteries than he is to believe God 's mysteries .
19 Perhaps he had been bored , perhaps he simply had n't believed in the danger .
20 But from those earliest days , she had n't believed in the Church at all ; not one scrap , not one iota , and this was why she 'd been so surprised to discover herself in such a place only the previous morning .
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