Example sentences of "[noun] believe that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political aims were unclear , and his closest allies believed that in 1845 he was about to betray the company , which was in a state of virtual collapse at the time of Somes 's death . |
| 2 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Briefly , it seems that in parts of Russia and south-east Europe , some of the country people believe that in certain circumstances — to avenge their murder , for instance — the dead can walk again , unless restrained by having wooden stakes driven into their hearts . ’ |
| 4 | They it 's simple , it 's nice , it 's elegant and it 's not an item at all unless you have a further premise that the world itself is simple , nice and elegant and you have no reason to believe that at all , but since that applies across all sides , I think linguistics is in no worse shape . |
| 5 | However , there is reason to believe that with scientific explanations , the optimal approach would involve discussions between groups of children , so long as the children start with differing but partially relevant ideas . |
| 6 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 7 | There is therefore no reason to believe that in such a system these two relatives are equally my mother 's husband or that they both have similar sexual rights over my mother . |
| 8 | But Mr Heath was savagely criticised by the press and the public , and friends of Mr Major believe that in similar circumstances he would be unlikely to hang on . |
| 9 | Mr. Foster believes that for many politics is something remote and complicated and wishes to change that . |
| 10 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 11 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which in tandem with Labour could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 12 | American Express believes that with more and more businesses insisting that all expenses are paid by chargecard , those who do not accept American Express cards will lose out . |
| 13 | Analysts believe that at best , Sock Shop will show profits of £1million in the 12 months to next February — less than half the level seen in the previous two years . |
| 14 | All City insurance analysts believe that in any event Australian Mutual will not get the Pearl for the 605p per share bid that it has made . |
| 15 | Peter Smith believes that in recent years a new type of upward influence has developed called ‘ whistle blowing ’ . |
| 16 | IBCA believes that at current stock market levels many Japanese banks would not meet the 8 p.c. capital adequacy requirement . |
| 17 | Looking specifically at the mid-range commercial systems marketplace , Wendler believes that by 1995 , users are likely to reach a point where the cost of implementing open systems will be less than to carry on as they are . |