Example sentences of "to believe [conj] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the close of that decade even writers like Thackeray , who are content to believe that all is well in the other nation , are none the less keenly aware of the divide — though he sees no reason to cross it — between a gentleman and his servants , ‘ who live with us all our days and are strangers to us : so strong custom is , and so pitiless the distinction between class and class ’ . |
| 2 | It is too easy to project all the evil outwards into that desert and then to believe that all is well in our own garden . |
| 3 | Even the Leader of the Opposition is on record as saying that the rating system is the unfairest of taxes , yet we are led to believe that that is what the Labour party proposes . |
| 4 | If Steen had been murdered ( and he had no cause to believe that that was the case ) , then it was something to do with the Sweets and the blackmailing business . |
| 5 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 6 | You need to believe that these are sound , even if other people do n't like them . |
| 7 | Thus , when we are told that everything is ‘ OK ’ we prefer to believe that this is so , although what people say can often contain far deeper and more subtle feelings and personal emotions . |
| 8 | What is important is that the individual understands why someone feels strong enough to say ‘ Go to hell ’ , and not merely to believe that this is an accurate statement of what that person desires . |
| 9 | As time goes by children will respond to the consistency of the lesson and come to believe that this is right for them ; the lesson is internalised . |
| 10 | ‘ I have every reason to believe that this is a first rate study ’ , says , AIDS director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ) . |
| 11 | When you have seen an egg broken into a frying pan of hot fat so that it turns from a clear fluid into a rubbery opaque solid , you are inclined to believe that this is quite a good way to cook an egg . |
| 12 | Even when presented with photographs showing obvious emaciation from starvation , the sufferer from anorexia may comply with forced feeding through intravenous or naso-gastric infusion in hospital but still continue to believe that this is all a lot of fuss and that other people are the ones who really have problems . |
| 13 | As I looked down at him lying there it was difficult to believe that this was Shimi Lovat . |
| 14 | It would be a mistake , however , even when the intimacy between Lewis and Tolkien was at its strongest , to believe that this was the only thing in both their lives . |
| 15 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 16 | There is no reason to believe that this was not true also of the world 's earliest volcanoes . |
| 17 | While I have no reason to believe that this was the case in respect of Wilson , or indeed any senior member of the Labour Party , I can understand why such a person would be reluctant to try to abort the inquiry . |
| 18 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 19 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 20 | There is no particular reason to believe that this was caused merely by the newer properties being of higher value . |
| 21 | Does my hon. Friend accept that , if British Rail has decided that only 13 of those crossings are unsafe , it therefore appears to believe that 87 are perfectly safe ? |