Example sentences of "if they believe that " in BNC.

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1 In the sixties , polls showed that , even if they believed that they themselves were doing rather well , most British people felt that their country was doing rather badly , and falling further behind foreign competitors .
2 I wonder how the young Napoleons who terrorise their neighbourhoods would react if they believed that , in the end , they would suffer a sound thrashing .
3 Nicholas and Uvarov flattered themselves , however , if they believed that the western provinces were becoming less intractable than the Congress Kingdom .
4 I honestly believe that the rail workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent , other workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent if they believed that they were on their own that they were gon na fight in isolation .
5 Therapists will take a patient back to difficult areas of the past , if they believe that the patient 's problems stem from this .
6 The system makes teachers careful with their marking system , for parents have the legal right to complain if they believe that their child 's classwork has been unfairly marked .
7 Arguably it provides a very strong constraint on managers to act efficiently , if we may assume they are concerned about their future career path and if they believe that the firm does not systematically assess their performance wrongly .
8 They will not complain if they believe that their property is worth more than the band in which it has been allocated .
9 The offer is there and is open to senior police officers if they believe that such batons would be of advantage to their forces .
10 If they believe that by cutting the salaries of two or three people at the top of the operation they can pay for all those goodies they are living in cloud cuckoo land .
11 Similarly , people who at some time in the future will require foreign currency ( people such as importers , holiday makers , or those thinking of investing abroad or in foreign securities ) may prefer to wait before exchanging pounds into the relevant foreign currencies if they believe that the sterling price of these currencies is likely to fall ( the pound is likely to appreciate ) .
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