Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Washington appeared to believe that Zahir Shah could act as a bridge between the mujahidin and the marxists in Kabul . |
| 2 | Those who support the cultural deprivation theory tend to believe that education can play a large part in remedying social inequality , while Marxists believe that education is an essential part of the process of reproducing inequality . |
| 3 | The N'pani professed to believe that tracks in the sand were disturbances in the wa , or harmony , of the garden . |
| 4 | People wanted to believe that rulers who were denying their people every small pleasure were engaged in orgies of Neronic excess . |
| 5 | The result was that public perception of My Lai was crucially altered and Americans came to believe that Calley and his men had inadvertently killed some Vietnamese civilians in the heat of battle . |
| 6 | Some clinicians and microbiologists continue to believe that P cepacia is a marker for , rather than the cause of , pulmonary deterioration . |
| 7 | As late as 13 October the Shoan leaders continued to believe that Negus Mikael was still at Dessie . |
| 8 | His audience wanted to believe that battle had , in the end , been unavoidable . |
| 9 | The ergonomist has to believe that work is a good thing and that to conduct it efficiently is always better than to conduct it inefficiently . |
| 10 | Certainly , a large section of the British public came to believe that standards had declined , and , as Thomas ( 1928 ) observed , ‘ if men define situations as real , they are real in their consequences ’ . |
| 11 | It is my belief that teachers are doing remarkably well in an era of prolonged attack upon state education that has led many consumers to come to believe that schools and teachers have somehow failed , by producing children ill equipped for their roles in society . |
| 12 | So skilled an illustrator was Rackham , that the reader begins to believe that trees have faces , mermaids gather shells beneath the sea and fairies fly through Kensington Gardens . |