Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless further evidence comes to light I believe that Court Farm is the old manor house of Langridge . |
| 2 | In other words they believe that sexism in this instance is built on some ‘ natural ’ foundation . |
| 3 | Like his fellow Republicans he believed that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 5 | The woman who believes that pregnancy is a physiological process and not a pathological one may decide that neither of her doctors is correct . |
| 6 | People who believe that history and the destinies of men are controlled by the stars are not likely to entertain the idea of historical progress . |
| 7 | The Orion is designed for those people who believe that luggage belongs in the boot . |
| 8 | In this sense I believe that Marxism is indivisible . |
| 9 | There was a political culture of stability ‘ thriving on the creation of symbolic dragons — the English , the Tories , the Church of England , Twickenham ’ ( Griffiths , 1987 , p. 215 ) , a lack of a corporate revolution and an inherent conservatism reflected by one councillor who believed that borrowing money to finance capital expenditure was tantamount to creative accounting . |
| 10 | The six are the first in the West to try techniques pioneered by Russian doctors who believe that sonar contact by dolphins helps to calm women . |
| 11 | The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success . |
| 12 | In turn they adopted the habit from those Greek philosophers who believed that dialectic was a useful mental exercise . |
| 13 | There had been trouble on Merseyside just once too often , and muddleheaded militants who believed that revolution was spawned in deprivation and poverty would be able to hold a little holiday in their hearts , secure in the knowledge that several more thousand British workers had been gulled into inflicting poverty and deprivation upon themselves . |
| 14 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 15 | Despite the deficiencies in the present system we believe that child resistant closures should be used now for all medicines whether dispensed or bought over the counter . |
| 16 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 17 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 18 | Well Madam Speaker , we 'll start making progress when members opposite realise that jobs come from companies being competitive , from private enterprise being able to sell goods and services competitively and it is members opposite who believe that the state can provide employment on this of the house we believe that government agencies can assist the market to operate effectively and real jobs will come from free enterprise which members opposite stand against . |