Example sentences of "[noun] believe [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is a pity , because what dates his book is not its methods but the readiness to believe in fearsome things from outer space .
2 The conclusions of the Athens conference of 130 art historians , archaeologists , conservators and scientists will be a part of the display ( see The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p.14 ) , as will casts of two life-size ancient kouroi believed by most scholars to be closest in style to the Getty example : the Tenea Kouros from Munich and the Anavysos Kouros from Athens .
3 In Compact the future entails a fundamental undermining of the reader 's need to believe in fictional events … . the detail and intensity are such that we do believe that what is predicted not only will occur but is occurring/has occurred , while at the same time not occurring , abolished , a mere fiction of words .
4 The question is often asked whether Hindus believe in many gods and goddesses .
5 A 53-year-old woman believed for 10 years that King George V was in love with her .
6 The malais believed in quick rotations for Danu .
7 If Mr Clinton believes in these things , no amount of European nervousness need hold him back ; it is still in his power , as America 's president and the world 's leader , to bang heads together and move forward .
8 The requirement to " be able to show " that a firm believes on reasonable grounds that an advertisement is fair and not misleading might imply no more than that the burden of proof is on the member , but on balance it seems to imply that hard evidence should be maintained to justify a particular advertisement .
9 As in the case of a Customer Agreement , there is an exemption dispensing with the need for a signed copy from a private customer ordinarily resident outside the UK where the firm believes on reasonable grounds that he does not wish to receive it or to consent in writing .
10 Rule 5 – 44 provides that a firm must not effect , arrange or recommend a contingent liability transaction with , for or to a private customer unless : ( a ) the transaction is made on-exchange ; or ( b ) the firm believes on reasonable grounds that the purpose of the transaction is to hedge against currency risks involved in a position which the customer holds .
11 must not proceed for a private customer with a packaged product of , or arranged by , any person with whom the firm has a connection unless the firm believes on reasonable grounds that the product will meet the customer 's requirements better than any other packaged product on the market .
12 The Profitboss believes in effective communications at work and that requires time and effort .
13 But , if the wife has been in receipt of the advice of a stranger whom the creditor believes on reasonable grounds to be competent , independent and disinterested , then the circumstances would need to be very exceptional before the creditor could be held bound by any equity which otherwise might arise from the husband 's conduct and his wife 's actual failure to understand the transaction …
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