Example sentences of "believe [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spenser 's preoccupation is characteristic of a Renaissance humanism which believed literature could move right readers to moral purpose . |
| 2 | This , for example , is why he believed Hobbes ( and himself ) to be an authoritarian but not an absolutist . |
| 3 | One critical aspect of the overall decline in the demand for labour was the discrimination that older workers believed employers exercised against them and in favour of younger ones . |
| 4 | The suggestion there was that we derive the account of justification from that of knowledge , thus : a is justified in believing p iff in certain circumstances a would know that p . |
| 5 | He believed Mortimer Cropper thought himself the lord and owner of Ash , but he , Blackadder , knew his place better . |
| 6 | He gives nothing on a corporate basis , believing shareholders should decide what to do with their dividends . |
| 7 | For years I believed Pathos was one of the Three Musketeers , Fellatio was a character in Hamlet , Vitreous a town in China , and that the Irish peasants had to tread the peat to make Guinness . |
| 8 | It 's been slow to cut interest rates , believing Germany 's four percent inflation is too high . |
| 9 | Almost two in three of the 897 housewives surveyed in June believed homeopathy and acupuncture were effective . |
| 10 | British naval regiment of infantry in which David Copperfield believed Micawber to have been an officer . |
| 11 | Sources inside the health authority believed proposals for purchasing consortia linking together districts throughout the Northern region could be the forerunner of a fully fledged merger , possibly developing into a system of county-wide authorities . |
| 12 | John Burbedge believed money was the key to the problem . |
| 13 | So many allegations of political interference did those restructuring plans prompt that the then Arts Minister , Richard Luce , felt it necessary to reassure the Commons ( 27 February , 1989 ) that although he supported the aims of the proposed restructuring , he believed responsibility for management of National Museums should be delegated to chairmen and directors . |
| 14 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 15 | The row started when the woman phoned to complain about comments she believed Snell had made about Ellesmere Port . |
| 16 | ‘ But you said you , too , believed King Alexander III was murdered ! ’ |
| 17 | Clift insisted he did n't have a drinking problem and Brando left believing Clift was ‘ a lost cause ’ . |
| 18 | Herbert Morrison was an advocate of tighter centralised control , and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Fuel and Power , Sir Donald Fergusson ( who believed nationalisation would only work if the public corporations were genuinely independent ) felt that independence was more likely to be achieved with a larger corporation which was more able to resist direct government intervention . |
| 19 | They felt that it was partly their responsibility to bring up their children in an atmosphere of knowledge and understanding of protestants , as they believed part of the difficulties of life in Ulster were caused by this lack of contact . |
| 20 | When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one . |
| 21 | So William erm on Thursday night erm he said on B B C's Question Time erm which was given over to crime and punishment issues which had not been debated and erm William said he 'd a come to the conclusion now that he believed drug taking should be made legal . |
| 22 | He believed attempts should be made to draw together people with a wide range of experience including local government officials covering finance and other areas , academics , the Scottish Office and possibly other interests . |
| 23 | I WONDER how many intelligent people such as myself watched and believed Saturday night 's Ghostwatch with Michael Parkinson . |
| 24 | Girdwood 's essay was in response to those who believed menstruation to be a peculiarly human phenomenon . |
| 25 | The United States attempt to modify its own declaration in April 1984 was an implicit acknowledgment that it believed Nicaragua to have a valid declaration . |
| 26 | The three strangers claimed , inter alia , that they believed Mrs. Morgan was consenting . |
| 27 | Mr Fairbairn told the court how he believed Lawrie had ‘ subconsciously ’ become involved in the offence after she was denied promotion when the post of head cashier became vacant . |
| 28 | The Kabul government said this week that it believed Pakistan intended to supply the guerrillas with chemical weapons for use in the Jalalabad battle . |
| 29 | Sometimes she believed Moray , sometimes she did n't . |
| 30 | ‘ You could n't grow up believing animals mattered more than human beings , could you ? |