Example sentences of "[be] to believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , if you 're to believe the press that it costs about seven thousand pounds for a wedding , an average cost for a wedding |
| 2 | Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over . |
| 3 | If we are to believe the British and American medical establishment , cellulite does not exist ; it is simply a fancy French word for fat . |
| 4 | However , those two qualities — innocence and a sense of responsibility — do not appear to be so much in demand in children 's stories if we are to believe a booklet published by the Evangelical Alliance . |
| 5 | We must feel that the existing social arrangements allow for equal , or justifiably unequal , satisfaction of our other needs , if we are to believe in conformity . |
| 6 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 7 | Yet these have also been the first two years of the Making Belfast Work programme , which if we are to believe the glossies , is the answer to structural unemployment of over one third of the workforce in West Belfast , using even the government 's definition of being unemployed . |
| 8 | If we are to believe late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century etiquette writers ( which I do n't altogether ) this was a period when it was thought gross to talk about food except to your cook , and in bad taste to discuss your host 's wine . |
| 9 | If we are to believe the cookery contributor ( are we to ? |
| 10 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 11 | The voice we hear is , as usual for the period right up to 1910 , an external voice : women are a group more spoken about than speaking , if we are to believe the written records . |
| 12 | If we are to believe the evidence of the bloodstains , Riddle was in his shirt sleeves when he was killed : no jacket , no outer coat … ’ |
| 13 | Well , not too high-candle power spotlight , if we are to believe Andrew Morton ( Observer ) : ‘ The organisers will pretend to be exasperated by belly-achings , but they 'll be pleased . |
| 14 | He immediately set off and arrived that night at Lesnes Abbey in Erith , with his household , and if we are to believe that he walked the whole way , it was a goodly walk for a bishop . |
| 15 | Later , if we are to believe Cicero , De divinatione 5.90 , his friend and guest , the Druid Divitiacus , gave answers in perfect Posidonian style : " et naturae rationem quam Graeci appellant , notam esse sibi profitebatur " . |
| 16 | IF we are to believe the current crop of Diana rumours , our once shy Di has a temper worthy of a fuming fishwife and a line in colourful verbal abuse to match . |
| 17 | Despite the need to spend hundreds of millions of pounds of public money on property acquisition , overnight we had the proposal for an eastern route into Stratford — a defeat for the Secretary of State , if we are to believe what we read in the newspapers , who wanted the original route . |
| 18 | With regard to the now unimportant four percent increase which then if you may made I 'm sure councillors deny it and if we are to believe the reason that we have to bring our rents to this level is because government policy so dictates that we shall do . |
| 19 | And if I am to believe her … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am to believe that they dare to send you on an assignment without discussing it with you , señorita ? |
| 21 | But if I am to believe that , when the Minister replies to the debate she will have to commit herself to two very simple propositions : first , that the Government will institute a full review of student financial support as a matter of urgency ; secondly , that they will commit themselves to restoring to all students the housing benefit and income support that the Government have taken away from them . |
| 22 | How foolish I had been to believe him , and love him so much ! |
| 23 | He appeared to ignore her , saying his folly had been to believe one could sell a newspaper with as little responsibility as a man selling apples off a stall . |
| 24 | An extreme conservative position would be to believe that , through the fact that God chose to become incarnate within a particular society , indeed through the fact that God chose a particular tradition and people , all aspects of that society are to be conceived to accord with the will of God . |
| 25 | Hon. Members can imagine how inept the Government must be to believe that overlooking a prison yard , floodlit day and night , would be conducive to the recuperation of neurosurgical patients . |
| 26 | " And there 's your mother , overworked and underpaid if I 'm to believe my ears , and in need of a skivvy . |
| 27 | Chris Young , Chelmsford : ‘ If you were to believe that people buy a record by The Smiths because they wish to change something , even if it is only the music industry , then you are being very naïve about things . |
| 28 | If we were to believe the local paper reports then we would have to accept that The Smiths were attacked by hordes of outraged loyalists , which was far from the truth . |
| 29 | The government had to show that job substitution was not taking place , that real jobs were actually being created and that the money was additional if people were to believe that they were sincere . |
| 30 | We 've got Gerry Addams who er wanted earlier in the week if we were to believe what seemed now like to be sitting at a table discussing peace , there he is carrying a bomber 's coffin . |