Example sentences of "they believe " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ The one thing you have got to give the fans is hope , and we 've got the staff at Aresenal to get them believing we can win things . ’ |
| 2 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 3 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 4 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
| 5 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 6 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 7 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 8 | Many of them believed that Eldorado 's launch in July was six months too early . |
| 9 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 10 | Neither of them believed that mankind was equal , or could ever be so , or would ever seriously wish to be so . |
| 11 | The studios were rocking from an earthquake none of them believed was happening . |
| 12 | In particular , the international projection of nationally-headquartered firms ' corporate identity is a vexed issue : Siegel & Gale 's new survey of 50 leading Hungarian companies , for example , found that if all of them believed that a company 's image was important to building sales , most would also rather do business with German 's sharply-etched Volkswagen that with fuzzy French concerns . |
| 13 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 14 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 15 | He was accused in a pamphlet , written by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and circulated by Nigel Watts , a property developer , of deceiving the Yugoslavs by letting them believe they were going to Italy . |
| 16 | No , there had never really been anything in Mr McCloy 's behaviour to make them believe he was n't a man of integrity . |
| 17 | We 've still got to let them believe they 're a bit macho . ’ |
| 18 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 19 | He said the photographer humoured the Lavergnes to let them believe they were the romantic subjects . |
| 20 | ‘ Drawing 1-1 up there with a team of kids when you 've been spanked 5-0 four days earlier made them believe they could finish the job at home . ’ |
| 21 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 22 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 23 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |
| 24 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 25 | Erm , obviously one needs to change peoples ideas or change the way we do things or whatever , erm two relevant position that 's sort of making them believe in what they 're trying to erm , propose , and getting commitment at the end . |
| 26 | ‘ It would be a serious mistake for them to believe that they could put the whole Taurus market place at jeopardy by cutting back on their Taurus budget . ’ |
| 27 | A good agent really understands the route a band has to take and must have a great relationship with his or her promoters to persuade them to believe in an artist . |
| 28 | The People 's Daily tells the Chinese what they are supposed to believe ; Mr Yang tells foreigners what he would like them to believe . |
| 29 | Deep down in those subconscious depths was the suggestion that you could make people believe anything you wanted them to believe , if only you knew how to pronounce the magic formula that brought the genie from the bottle . |
| 30 | Well , nearly — it appeared game , set and match to the PFA but either the memory , or the shorthand , of the Football League 's negotiators was faulty because in their letter to clubs , describing what had been agreed , they led them to believe that the second principle had not been conceded . |