Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] believe [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis for this offer is the fact known by the cops and the criminals that the judge in the case has a history of giving reduced sentences and often clemency to guilty criminals who truly show remorse ; the judge also believes that co-operation with the police is proof that a criminal regrets his behaviour . |
| 2 | The committee also believes that time should be set aside for the trial disposal and subsequent recovery of radioactive waste ( which is the practice in the United States and Canada ) . |
| 3 | By the time they had reached Morocco , the Shah and the Queen both believed that Giscard had betrayed them personally at Guadeloupe . |
| 4 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 5 | The reports , first published in the New York Times , revealed that US investigators now believed that Ahmed Jabril , leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) , had paid Libyan agents to carry out the bombing of the Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) Boeing 747 flight PA 103 . |
| 6 | Most Christians today believe that Jesus feeds ' his people in the Eucharistic celebration ( The feeding of the 5000 ) . |
| 7 | Christians today believe that Jesus has the authority to forgive sins . |
| 8 | Chinese alchemists also believed that longevity could be encouraged by eating jade . |
| 9 | It is no coincidence that Rousseau also believed that women were incapable of the development and education required for citizenship and ‘ must be trained to bear the yoke from the first … and to submit themselves to the will of others . ’ |
| 10 | Colonel Fagg obviously believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 11 | The extent to which contemporaries really believed that clubs affected the infant mortality rate is difficult to gauge , though in club circles such a proposition may well have been tenable . |
| 12 | The majority now believed that Bunker 's more realistic approach made more sense . |
| 13 | Now I doubt if any modern scientist really believes that mind " and " matter " are distinguishable in this simple dualistic way ; it is simply that the experimental research worker , in his laboratory , is bound , by the context of his work , to act as if he believed it . |
| 14 | Many people wrongly believed that setaside land would soon bloom with wildflowers like this ancient Cotswold grazing meadow , which is now a nature reserve . |
| 15 | Many people still believe that Travis was right and ‘ There Was A Light ’ would have lodged in the top three . |
| 16 | Some people mistakenly believe that ceiling joists can be turned into floor joists , simply by nailing other joists on top to double the depth . |
| 17 | Some idea of the potential gains from a single currency can be had by looking at previous historical periods when people really believed that exchange rates were fixed . |
| 18 | Does Patrick Jenkin really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) ? |
| 19 | Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate . |
| 20 | The conspirators apparently believed that Edward II was still alive , for Rent had been arrested after visiting Corfe Castle where the deposed king was supposed to be hiding . |
| 21 | Letting agents Whelan Best believe that Heritage Plaza is ideally suited to a wide variety of retailers , including the owners of gift shops , bookshops , craft shops , antique and fashion and accessory outlets . |
| 22 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 23 | That same society once believed that science would overcome all its problems . |
| 24 | Roth now believes that animals select what he calls ‘ optimum thermal surroundings ’ . |
| 25 | Thus , in a class society members typically believe that mobility is easily available and secured on merit . |
| 26 | But if 60 per cent of Conservative members really believe that standards may suffer , the remedy 's in their hands : they must use their corporate power to change the Bill for the better . |
| 27 | For example , ministry officials and union leaders alike believed that RENFE deliberately gave overpessimistic forecasts so that actual results would be seen in a favourable light ( Sanchez 1984 ; El País , 5 June 1984 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Diana clearly believed that Fergie should hear the news from her own lips rather than read about it . |
| 29 | Midlands men also believe that women want tenderness rather than dominance , and a man who treats women as equals . |
| 30 | Common report now believes that Alexander III , King of Scotland , accidentally fell to his death from Kinghorn Ness on 18th March 1286 . |