Example sentences of "believe in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do not believe in the audition system . |
| 2 | Pancho is convinced that , ‘ once the parents and the player have selected a coach , they should believe in him . |
| 3 | ‘ Incidentally , do you believe in ghosts ? ’ |
| 4 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 5 | A paper person is a walking theory , and one which may not even believe in itself ; and then the paper person will not merely have nobody , he will have no theory to be . |
| 6 | ‘ I — I will believe in God , ’ says Shatov . |
| 7 | Opposite them stands Shatov , and when his wife 's and Stavrogin 's baby is delivered by Mrs Virginsky , the man who will believe in God declares |
| 8 | But I do n't believe in encouraging the fancy — as long as there is imagination . |
| 9 | ‘ Something like this makes you believe in yourself that much more , ’ said Toleafoa , whose father is a consulate-general for Western Somoa , but who qualifies to play for New Zealand because of her mother . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't believe in the fatal decline of the written word , ’ says Mr Fontaine , ‘ but we are competing all the time — not so much against television , because the screen image and the printed word complement each other , as against magazines , and against the time people spend getting to work and then their leisure time — against music and the cinema . ’ |
| 11 | Nor do I believe in deliberately making people poor : that is why I oppose sanctions . |
| 12 | Nor do I believe in obstructing democracy : that is why I oppose repression and the state of emergency . |
| 13 | Speaking the day after Neil Kinnock depicted education and training as the commanding heights of every modern economy , Mr Straw insisted : ‘ We do not believe in the best for the few , but the best for all . |
| 14 | David Blunkett , Labour 's local government spokesman , said : ‘ Does anyone really believe in their heart of hearts that this Government under this Prime Minister is going to abandon the poll tax , return to the rates , because people do n't pay and public services are under threat ? |
| 15 | But the Chancellor said in a series of television and radio interviews that he did not believe in ‘ trying to play silly games , political games ’ — and he would not rule out a further increase if it became necessary . |
| 16 | Neither , it seems , does it believe in new- fangled technology . |
| 17 | For reasons which never seem quite convincing , given the tediousness of the material and the fact that the three do not even believe in it , this becomes an obsessive hobby over a period of years . |
| 18 | I do n't believe in that . |
| 19 | Frank said that he did not believe in God ; such a belief can not possibly be proved ; the good life is possible without it ; and the only faculty to judge is the reason , which tells us to say , we do not know . |
| 20 | I just have to react to what I like and what I can believe in . |
| 21 | Yes , I do believe in trying to persuade people that the things I believe in are the things they should follow … |
| 22 | She wanted to say , ‘ Because of Maggie and Rachel and Lisa and the garden and duty and sunshine , ’ but alone in the darkness she did not believe in any of that . |
| 23 | Unlike many top executives , he does n't believe in committing thorny issues to paper . |
| 24 | He simply does n't believe in it . |
| 25 | I just do n't believe in that . ’ |
| 26 | He disliked the ethos of Irish Protestantism and he did not believe in its doctrines . |
| 27 | Let us keep our meditation simple by discounting various facts fact , for example , that most of Christ 's Jewish contemporaries did not believe in His divinity or join the newly founded Christian Church or sect . |
| 28 | The New Wave films that do work tend to be those built around a single , larger-than-life character , like Tom Jones or Alfie ( 1966 ) , in which Michael Caine plays a cockney Don Juan who ‘ do n't believe in making anyone unhappy , not if you do n't have to do it ’ but is forever breaking the hearts of young girls , until the sight of one of his middle-aged victims going through an abortion forces him into repentance . |
| 29 | I do n't diet because I do n't believe in it . |
| 30 | Only one Milanese was still proclaiming that ‘ greige ’ is good — and even he sent out token blasts of red , purple and pink to acknowledge a hankering for colour which he personally does not believe in . |