Example sentences of "[noun] believe [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langdon believed that American determination to resist Soviet expansion in Korea had to be demonstrated and that the current unpopularity of communists in the south should be used to encourage the moderates in north Korea . |
| 2 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 3 | ‘ You encourage your readers to believe that one day their prince will come . ’ |
| 4 | Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse . |
| 5 | Many City pundits believe that new debt to equity ratios indicate how confident companies are about investments . |
| 6 | Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions . |
| 7 | Reformers believed that one way of preventing these marriages was to provide clubs with attractive and organized recreational facilities in the hope that ‘ the girl who has her clubs will not need the idle companionship of lads ’ . |
| 8 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 9 | Whereas Herodotus transformed ‘ history ’ ( historia ) from a general enquiry about the world into an enquiry about past events , Thucydides believed that serious history could be concerned only with the present , or the immediate past . |
| 10 | Bishop believed that change was essential and reported on his return to Washington that there was undue complacency in Tokyo ; the vested interests in the occupation bureaucracy believed that American dominance in Japan must be continued for a considerable period and Bishop held that tough action would be required in order to transform attitudes and to terminate the occupation . |
| 11 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 12 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 13 | The Institute believes that sole practice should continue to be permitted , but with extra safeguards . |
| 14 | This institute believes that some form of National Statistics Council has a role to play but with the following provisos : 1 . |
| 15 | County Council believes that this advice and guidance is synonymous with the view that is taken that development of the open countryside will in fact represent the exception rather than the rule and that new development would not normally be permitted . |
| 16 | Given the present public concern about the effectiveness of auditing , the committee believes that appropriate legislation is required as a matter of urgency . |
| 17 | In fact the US Agriculture Undersecretary believes that European sugar policies cost less-developed nations about two billion dollars a year in lost export earnings . |
| 18 | Grassmuck believes that this communication barrier between parents and children led to a series of killings of parents by their sons . |
| 19 | A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders . |
| 20 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 21 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 22 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 23 | Some economists believe that this kind of market mechanism is the most effective way of reducing pollution . |
| 24 | Many observers believe that this outcome would not have happened if BA had not been privatised as such a dominant carrier in the UK , but others argue that this claim is irrelevant and that world competition is what matters ; BA and BCal were both relatively small on the world stage , but might have been able to compete effectively in a merged form . |
| 25 | 73% believe that increased unemployment has contributed to violent crime . |
| 26 | Macedo believes that uniting development and preservation is not only possible , but essential . |
| 27 | Mr McKiernan believes that this service will have an even more important role to play in the financial services sector in the future . |
| 28 | She had received a note that morning while breakfasting at ‘ Mon Repos ’ from Sir Charles Webb-Bowen no less , telling her that she would be called upon to speak third in favour of the motion : ‘ That this Conference believes that better public and press relations would enable Government and Party to get its message across to the public more effectively . ’ |
| 29 | Unlike Eisenhower ( who had argued in 1959 , that if the Soviets really intended to make trouble they could be deterred only with the threat of nuclear war ) , Kennedy believed that Western diplomacy should be backed up by increased conventional forces on the continent . |
| 30 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |