Example sentences of "[verb] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't mean that I have slopped believing , but only that I believe in my own way . |
| 2 | In my book the only time a manager should consider resigning is when he starts believing his own programme notes . |
| 3 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 4 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 5 | You stopped believing in Father Christmas , tooth fairies , paternal omniscience and in the sort of over-the-top crazy heart-thudding happy-ever-after love they told you was the ideal . |
| 6 | Was n't it time she stopped believing in love since she had no evidence to suggest that such an unselfish , uplifting emotion existed outside the imagination of those who wanted to be duped ? |
| 7 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 8 | It is my belief that teachers are doing remarkably well in an era of prolonged attack upon state education that has led many consumers to come to believe that schools and teachers have somehow failed , by producing children ill equipped for their roles in society . |
| 9 | The majority of the analysts interviewed believe that the cash flow statement is an improvement on the funds flow statement , although it has not yet radically changed analysts ' approach to their work . |
| 10 | While , as has been seen , the actual chances of victimisation are less than many people believe , nonetheless , in Granby , for example , three quarters of those interviewed believe there are real Asks for women who go out at night and half said they often or always avoid going out after dark . |
| 11 | Were we really expected to believe this ? |
| 12 | ‘ And I 'm really expected to believe that Donal , of his own bat , sent me to Wexford to meet you , knowing you were about to seek out my family , just to be friendly ? |
| 13 | When you get people on to a sort of Noddy Goes Selling course , which is the first one you come on , you are expected to believe that when you leave here anybody who does n't use T N T Express would be absolutely crazy , and that everybody you 're going to talk to is going to bite your arm off as long as you stay with your boyfriend . |
| 14 | ‘ Venables laughed and said that the deal was worth over £4m to Lineker but no one could be expected to believe Tottenham would get more than £1m . |
| 15 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 16 | On the other hand , as a group activity it can be less than enjoyable for the shortest child in the group if he is continually identified as ‘ the shortest ’ , when he needs to believe that ‘ he 's a big boy , really ’ . |
| 17 | Someone believes because he needs to believe , and that is that . |
| 18 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 19 | ‘ She says , days come , days go , who needs to believe anything ? |
| 20 | But he needs to believe in what he teaches , and tries not to lie . |
| 21 | If Margaret Thatcher stands down before the next election , as most voters appear to believe she should , Michael Heseltine is the popular choice to succeed her as Conservative leader , according to the opinion polls . |
| 22 | This was partly because they were unsure about the outcome , partly because they were not able to segment the market with precision , and partly because the account executives in their advertising agencies , in common with many media directors , still appear to believe that prosperity is equated with youth . |
| 23 | A disturbing number of librarians now appear to believe that their jobs may legitimately be used to proselytize , for political and other beliefs , and to be unaware that these are highly damaging views for librarians to hold . |
| 24 | Most of the companies appear to believe that further productivity increases were possible in the audit . |
| 25 | Furthermore it is legitimate to ask how far adult behaviour patterns are built on a childhood foundation — is the child father to the man , or mother to the woman , in the absolute and simple sense Maltz and Borker appear to believe ? |
| 26 | It is not , as most appear to believe , the end of a process , but in many ways a beginning . |
| 27 | However , while most teachers of English in our universities believe , or appear to believe , that there is an unspoken consensus about what constitutes ‘ quality ’ in the practice of English , then this rift will remain unresolved . |
| 28 | But I am not the automaton you appear to believe . ’ |
| 29 | I can not understand why some Opposition Members — we do not know whether this is the official Opposition Front-Bench policy — appear to believe that profits from private medicine must be preserved for private companies and not made available to the NHS to improve care for NHS patients . |
| 30 | But because they now genuinely appear to believe that we will swallow absolutely anything . |