Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] believe [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to these informal clinical observations , there are several other , more scientific , reasons for believing that schizophrenia and affective psychosis are not as distinct from each other as was once thought . |
| 2 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 3 | The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind . |
| 4 | It must fit our practice , and we have discovered important reasons for believing that conventionalism does not . |
| 5 | There are good family economic reasons for believing that fertility will not become high . |
| 6 | It may be that , as more scientific information is gathered on fish physiology , the evidence for believing that fish feel pain might become overwhelming and the Society may have to come out firmly against this sport . |
| 7 | The jury … found that Constable Laurie was not actuated by malice or direct motive , but had actually been over-zealous ; that he had no reasonable and probable ground for believing that Roche 's house was used for betting , and that he did not honestly believe that he made bets with plaintiff . |
| 8 | This idiom encourages the very bad habit of believing that life is going to be as neatly packaged as a school textbook . |
| 9 | On the contrary , many followed Malthus in believing that availability of food would always tend to limit population growth , and that the ‘ iron law of wages ’ would prevent the poor from achieving a standard of living allowing diseases of malnutrition to be banished . |
| 10 | ‘ At all costs ’ , wrote Dorothy Hardisty in one of her reports to the RCM executive , ‘ we must try to dissuade our boys and girls from believing that London is the answer to all their prayers . ’ |
| 11 | The death threats he received in London do n't point to it , but if you have any other reason for believing that theory I must ask you to reveal it so that it can be properly investigated . ’ |
| 12 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 13 | Now , irrespective of the soundness of believing that universities did actually work vigorously to review and develop the quality of their courses and did in practice operate as self-critical academic communities , these ideas are not immediately compatible . |
| 14 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) would be shocked if she knew the extent to which the hon. Member for Dagenham attempts to lead the public into believing that Labour would operate a more generous rebate system . |
| 16 | While the evidence is not conclusive , there are therefore some grounds for believing that trusts for performance would be enforced directly and in specie . |
| 17 | The presumption is that the suspect will be released with or without bail , but it can be rebutted if the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that detention without charge is necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to the offence for which the suspect has been arrested , or to obtain such evidence by questioning him ( s.37(2) ) . |
| 18 | Ironically , the evidence provided by Cartesian vivisectors , who had already demonstrated the anatomical and physiological similarities between humans and non-humans , gave Bentham and his followers sufficient grounds for believing that animals could indeed experience pain and pleasure ( Serpell , 1986 ; Ryder , 1989 ) . |
| 19 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 20 | ( c ) That the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that arrest is necessary to prevent the relevant person : ( i ) causing physical harm to himself or another ; ( ii ) suffering physical injury ; ( iii ) causing loss or damage to property ; ( iv ) committing an offence against public decency ; ( v ) causing an unlawful obstruction of the highway . |
| 21 | Indeed , it can be argued that the wisdom of believing or dis-believing is itself questionable . |
| 22 | There is a school of thought that claims that faith is an act of will made in defiance of the irrationality of believing that God exists . |
| 23 | But many people will join John Bell in believing that Aspect 's experiment is as good as can be achieved , now that he has made the crucial move in introducing some time variation into the apparatus . |