Example sentences of "believes [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although SAVE believes that alternative uses are possible for most types of buildings , including churches , the Holy Name was an exception and our fears for its future increased with rumours of purchase offers from McDonald 's .
2 He believes that non-violent rape can be ‘ most excusable . ’
3 Sue Punton , the senior sister at the hospital 's gerontology department believes that essential oils help geriatric patients in several ways .
4 If they last , Phillips believes that joint ventures may hold the answer and thinks that the new shareholders who will take stakes after the existing owners are forced to divest themselves of 51% of ITN could provide the answer .
5 Boltwood believes that psychic energy can give us the power to alter subconsciously our perception of the situation .
6 It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas .
7 As Britain 's largest Third World child sponsorship charity , ActionAid believes that long-term help — with agriculture , education , healthcare and training programmes as well as savings and credit schemes — is the only way the world 's poor and their children will ever break free from crushing poverty and work towards a brighter future .
8 One of those experts — John Kremer , a university lecturer who is currently writing a book on ‘ Psychology in Sport ’ — believes that mental training is as vital as physical training if talent is to excel .
9 The NRA assessment also believes that increased monitoring , providing more accurate information , has led to some stretches of water being downgraded even though they are probably no worse than ten years ago .
10 The first believes that perfect competition is a useful paradigm that policymakers should take as a guide ; this is the liberalising , deregulating , competition-promoting wing of the profession .
11 Unger ( 1979 ) believes that increasing knowledge of harmful unconscious sex-specific processes can help create a sex-neutral society , for example .
12 Sister Clare Lewington , who runs the Royal Free Prostate Laboratory where she helps conduct treatment trials , believes that increasing media coverage of prostate disease is resulting in more self-referrals to her hospital .
13 Elizabeth Rickards , vice-principal of Duff Miller Sixth-Form College in London , believes that new types of examination mean that cramming in the old-fashioned way is impossible .
14 Marshall now believes that new research in Canada proves that ballooning is a less serious problem , however .
15 And if Hoylake wins its takeover battle for BAT , he believes that other companies will embark on the acquisitions trail , giving the market a boost .
16 Despite these occasional reservations , Norris writes as a disciple , who believes that other disciples , as well as Derrida 's enemies , have got him wrong .
17 Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case .
18 He clearly believes that one-day cricket is essentially junk cricket , and who could honestly disagree with him ?
19 However , King also believes that traditional agroforestry led to the establishment of plantation forestry because of colonial timber requirements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that culminated in the separation of agricultural and forestry interests .
20 Charlton believes that European Champions Denmark are the most likely side to fill the other qualifying place in group three .
21 In general , Ollero believes that European countries have similar opportunities to the US for developing innovative software , and says that many important ideas have come from small companies .
22 In fact the US Agriculture Undersecretary believes that European sugar policies cost less-developed nations about two billion dollars a year in lost export earnings .
23 On the other hand , Jim Smith , ex-manager of Birmingham City Football Club , believes that black players make only limited use of intellectual abilities when playing soccer : ‘ They seem to use very little intelligence ; they get by on sheer natural talent most of the time . ’
24 On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest .
25 The Institute believes that sole practice should continue to be permitted , but with extra safeguards .
26 IF Fred Barker , Master of the Quorn , believes that changing garb would make one iota of difference to those who object to hunting then he must live in cloud cuckoo land .
27 Given the present public concern about the effectiveness of auditing , the committee believes that appropriate legislation is required as a matter of urgency .
28 David Musa Pidcock , leader of the Islamic Party of Great Britain , believes that economic factors are fanning incidents of racism in Britain .
29 As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so .
30 The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records .
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