Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis for this offer is the fact known by the cops and the criminals that the judge in the case has a history of giving reduced sentences and often clemency to guilty criminals who truly show remorse ; the judge also believes that co-operation with the police is proof that a criminal regrets his behaviour . |
| 2 | The committee also believes that time should be set aside for the trial disposal and subsequent recovery of radioactive waste ( which is the practice in the United States and Canada ) . |
| 3 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 4 | Chinese alchemists also believed that longevity could be encouraged by eating jade . |
| 5 | Colonel Fagg obviously believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 6 | The majority now believed that Bunker 's more realistic approach made more sense . |
| 7 | Now I doubt if any modern scientist really believes that mind " and " matter " are distinguishable in this simple dualistic way ; it is simply that the experimental research worker , in his laboratory , is bound , by the context of his work , to act as if he believed it . |
| 8 | Many people wrongly believed that setaside land would soon bloom with wildflowers like this ancient Cotswold grazing meadow , which is now a nature reserve . |
| 9 | Some people mistakenly believe that ceiling joists can be turned into floor joists , simply by nailing other joists on top to double the depth . |
| 10 | Some idea of the potential gains from a single currency can be had by looking at previous historical periods when people really believed that exchange rates were fixed . |
| 11 | Does Patrick Jenkin really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) ? |
| 12 | Letting agents Whelan Best believe that Heritage Plaza is ideally suited to a wide variety of retailers , including the owners of gift shops , bookshops , craft shops , antique and fashion and accessory outlets . |
| 13 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 14 | That same society once believed that science would overcome all its problems . |
| 15 | Thus , in a class society members typically believe that mobility is easily available and secured on merit . |
| 16 | The Code allows it , where the suspect consents , or where a senior officer reasonably believes that delaying interrogation will involve an immediate risk of harm to persons or serious loss of , or damage to , property ’ or ‘ cause unreasonable delay to the processes of investigation ’ . |
| 17 | Russell firmly believes that marketing should be done locally , in the language and culture of the customer . |
| 18 | Unlike some politicians who cling to mythical notions of a past golden age , no sociologist actually believes that society is , or could be , really like this . |