Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] believe that [noun sg] " 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 | It must fit our practice , and we have discovered important reasons for believing that conventionalism does not . |
| 3 | There are good family economic reasons for believing that fertility will not become high . |
| 4 | This idiom encourages the very bad habit of believing that life is going to be as neatly packaged as a school textbook . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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) ) . |
| 9 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |