Example sentences of "believe that [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does Mr Baker really believe that such dishonesty and repression provide a ‘ strong family background ’ ? |
| 2 | Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election . |
| 3 | Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased . |
| 4 | I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time . |
| 5 | I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | I do n't actually believe that that depression is normal , I believe that we can overcome depression , and I think there is some creative things that we can do out of a depression people can become stronger , they can tap into their resources inside with support and help , so I can believe it 's a positive experience . |
| 7 | But you clearly do n't believe that that statement , the the Reynolds Major statement goes far enough . |
| 8 | Only the utterly naïve or the determinedly blind could believe that any government activity near to election time does not have electoral implications . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I do n't believe that any obstruction on your behalf at this stage will be looked on kindly . ’ |
| 15 | Well then I ca n't believe that any garage would , would refuse to give you a ten piece for their own machine . |
| 16 | But we do n't believe that those sort of problems can be solved centrally , we believe that local communities can look at their own areas and see what they can do to lessen the problem . |
| 17 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 18 | Friends of mine who read SHE ca n't believe that this man who is so outrageous on the page is so quiet in real life . |
| 19 | Do you truly believe that this country has really benefited from the importation of blacks , Asians etc ? |
| 20 | In contrast , Jones ( 1989 ) argued that " only the most myopic enthusiasts for parent power can believe that this constituency [ the total number of 100,000 parent-governors ] will , by being placed in a quasi-market situation , automatically start operating as agents of that system " . |
| 21 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 22 | As it will have become clear , I do not believe that this vehicle is tenable . |
| 23 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 24 | Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time . |
| 25 | We do not believe that this kind of analysis can be politically or morally neutral — and nor should it , for our understanding of the situation is that the penal system is morally indefensible and is in dire need of a programme of radical reform which will inevitably be highly political . |
| 26 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 27 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 28 | Environmentalists do not believe that this phase-out is fast enough . |
| 29 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 30 | I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past . |