Example sentences of "[noun] believe that [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This institute believes that some form of National Statistics Council has a role to play but with the following provisos : 1 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Grassmuck believes that this communication barrier between parents and children led to a series of killings of parents by their sons . |
| 7 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some economists believe that this kind of market mechanism is the most effective way of reducing pollution . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr McKiernan believes that this service will have an even more important role to play in the financial services sector in the future . |
| 12 | Around the world , many cultures believe that any harm done to a dolphin may cause ill-fortune or sickness . |
| 13 | It requires a lot of faith to believe that such questioning will actually be recognized , liked and rewarded . |
| 14 | Hong Kong authorities believe that most boat people will acquiesce rather than violently resist attempts to send them back to Vietnam , but this apparent passivity can be deceptive . |
| 15 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 16 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 17 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 18 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 19 | This is another area largely unexplored by the Church , and the Commission believes that more work needs to be done here , for the implication of the research completed so far is that the average parish congregation demands a variety of musical styles if the needs of all its members are to be met . |
| 20 | Had the above account been a linguistic account , an explanation of the meaning of ‘ legitimate authority ’ , it would have followed that anyone who believes of a person that he has legitimate authority believes that that person satisfies the condition set by the justification thesis . |
| 21 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 22 | Many scholars believe that this interpretation is not original and was not given by Jesus . |
| 23 | Some scholars believe that this story is more theological than historical . |
| 24 | Many scholars believe that this miracle has the same root as the calming of the storm . |
| 25 | The Union believes that any musician playing to the public should be guaranteed reasonable money . |
| 26 | Age Concern believes that this issue needs urgent consideration in the context of the NHS Review , and that the statutory responsibilities of health authorities in this respect should be clarified . |
| 27 | One chief executive believed that such thinking was so important to his organization 's success in a high-tech field that he staged a highly imaginative top management meeting . |
| 28 | ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’ |
| 29 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 30 | " There 's something which I did n't mention , but I want to make it absolutely clear , and that is that I 've reason to believe that this craft , the Dreadnought , leaks quite badly . " |