Example sentences of "[noun] believe [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me a while to believe those three things utterly and another while to risk acting on the belief . |
| 2 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 3 | He also learned that Sir Charles believed these supernatural stories , and that he had a weak heart . |
| 4 | Israeli officials crow over America 's new appreciation of their country 's difficulties — all those maps , for instance , that drive home just how small Israel is — but there is not much reason to believe that post-war relations between the Bush administration and the Shamir government will be any cosier than the pre-war ones were . |
| 5 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 6 | The full scale of the environmental damage caused by the recent wrecking of the tanker Braer on Shetland 's shores will take years to assess , but DAVID VICKERMAN believes some fundamental lessons from the incident have already been learned . |