Example sentences of "believe [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Henry 's belief 2 is true , and surely he is justified in believing 2 . |
| 2 | If 2 had been going to choose A , she would work out that 1 would plan to choose B , in which case she would change her planned action to whatever is the best response to B , so falsifying the initial assumption that she would choose A. Thus 1 can not persist in believing 2 will choose A if he knows that she is as rational and well-informed as he is . |
| 3 | Faith is not believing six impossible things before breakfast . |
| 4 | Michael Tappin , 42 , a politics lecturer at Keele University and delegate from the local CLP , believed 80 per cent of the party were in accord with the review . |
| 5 | But if , as well as believing 1 and 2 , I happen also to believe |
| 6 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 7 | An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 . |
| 8 | While everyone else goes about believing 60 or 65 to be the correct retirement age , those who pride themselves on being positive about age have lifted the chronological sights to 70 . |
| 9 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
| 10 | I can believe six impossible things before breakfast ! |
| 11 | Do not believe one word of what your mother says about Whangdoodles and Hornswogglers and Snozzwanglers and Vermicious Knids and the Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling Spittler . |
| 12 | When I tell the girls , I thought , they 'll not believe one word of this . |
| 13 | In fact I do believe one team was here till about two thirty doing it |
| 14 | It was impossible to believe eleven . |
| 15 | I believe eleven should clarify that in view of the regional planning guidance , in view of the comments made by Leeds , er that it should one should state under this criteria that the new settlement should not be located on the south west side of York . |
| 16 | I often believe six different impossible things before breakfast . ’ |
| 17 | The Watford Locks on the Grand Union Canal are we believe 7 in number with a total rise of 56 feet and the Foxton Locks 10 in number with a total rise of 75 feet . |
| 18 | This week , Labour Members announced that they are total Europeans , believe 100 per cent . |
| 19 | Council officers believe 300,000 people could use the leisure pool during its first year . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 21 | People living on the Ryeford canal where they were killed believe three months is n't long enough . |
| 22 | I know my Spencer ancestors built their wealth in the sixteenth century on the rearing of sheep , and I believe one of the benefits of receiving the Freedom of the City is that Freemen , or Women , are able to drive sheep across London Bridge and through the City of London . |
| 23 | Doctors now believe one of the constituents of fish oil — eicosapentaenoic acid — could help beat cancer . |
| 24 | The Shanghai Sex Sociological Research Centre , after questioning 23,000 people in 15 provinces , has concluded that 86% of Chinese approve of sex before marriage , 69% approve of extra-marital affairs , and more than 70% believe one purpose of sex is pleasure — not just , as Maoist traditionalists would have it , procreation and the dreary fulfilment of conjugal duty . |
| 25 | I believe one of the reasons you left Fleetwood Mac was because you did n't want to tour . |
| 26 | Moderator in the course of my lifetime I believe one of the big changes within a family has been the fact that grace is no longer said at meal times . |
| 27 | I believe one of the forms of philander does occur in the Rift Valley , but it is not nichollsi . |
| 28 | But also on the course , and I believe one of the earliest , was a pilot scheme for Medical Officers to take flying training . |
| 29 | The police believe one of the gang visited the village yesterday … to search for likely targets . |
| 30 | Officials believe one explanation may be the heavy overnight rain in the area prevented the tar from bonding . |