Example sentences of "it believes " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party has to emphasise that , in contrast to the Tories , it believes public spending should rise in line with growth in output , but that it will pursue responsible fiscal policies . |
| 2 | To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector . |
| 3 | It believes its success has come because of the ‘ single issue ’ approach . |
| 4 | But it believes it must take its message into all areas of life , to press causes , such an end to official silence on environmental problems , an investigation into glaring election fraud and above all an honest look at why so many are leaving . |
| 5 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 6 | It believes this would prevent legal challenges to its status while retaining its flexibility to interpret the code according to changing circumstances . |
| 7 | It believes that unless urgent action is taken , on this front , law enforcement agencies will be deprived of a potentially powerful weapon against international crime . |
| 8 | By this means no party will be called upon to sacrifice any of the principles in which it believes . |
| 9 | Taylor Walker is benefiting from a customer care programme that it believes will enable it to compete with its European counterparts . |
| 10 | Japan , which has no fossil fuel reserves of its own , wants to stockpile plutonium because it believes that it can develop the technology to transform it into plentiful and cheap electricity . |
| 11 | A Service department may take the risk of including an important project in its list , not because it believes it has a low priority , but because it knows it would be politically awkward for the party in power to consider cutting it . |
| 12 | It believes that the government wants a short-term profitable fishery regardless of the consequences for the crab fishery or the dolphins . |
| 13 | In any democracy , a government can commit its people to certain bloodshed only if it believes it has their support . |
| 14 | Hanson buys firms either because it believes them to be under-managed , or because it believes the firms ' existing managers have over-extended themselves . |
| 15 | Hanson buys firms either because it believes them to be under-managed , or because it believes the firms ' existing managers have over-extended themselves . |
| 16 | It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas . |
| 17 | Fitch reckons that not all bond insurers deserve the top rating ; those that do , it believes , suffer because investors do not trust the triple-As assigned to the insured debt by Moody 's and S&P . |
| 18 | It believes in progress and in democratic methods . |
| 19 | It believes that the Country needs a return of the sane principles of ‘ peace , retrenchment , and reform ’ , which formed the basis of Liberal policy a generation ago . |
| 20 | Are we to conclude , therefore , that the Anglican Church 's neglect of purification ritual for women is not because it believes women to be ‘ clean ’ , but because it would rather such matters were n't mentioned at all ? |
| 21 | Labour has promised a system of independent public inquiries which will look into all proposed school closures , and it believes this will protect schools threatened because of their decision to opt out . |
| 22 | It believes that this ‘ crisis ’ level of interest rates may only may last only a short while but that a ‘ risk premium ’ may remain throughout the life of a Labour government , with adverse implications for growth . |
| 23 | The Government will maintain resistance to farm reforms which it believes discriminate against large British concerns . |
| 24 | Now it believes it has halted the downward slide following a restructuring and product strategy review over the past year . |
| 25 | It believes that ‘ fooling all of the people all of the time ’ is entirely possible when the product or service is interesting or persuasive enough . |
| 26 | It believes that companies need to integrate environmental management with existing managemental structures and practices . |
| 27 | Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ . |
| 28 | Where the latter have rejected other gods in favour of the one they wish to follow , the former has attempted to assimilate the many gods in which it believes into a single Deity who stands behind them as their ground . |
| 29 | That is to say , it believes in one God and distances that God completely from the world as utterly transcendent . |
| 30 | The reason for MI5 's inefficiency is that it wastes far too much time and resources chasing after the wrong sort of people who it believes to be subversive , while real enemies of the state are able to go on spying undetected for decades . |