Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may chug along believing that structure is all there is to it or that a combination of structure and roles is the answer . |
| 2 | We grow up to believe that doctors in white coats prescribe effective pain-relieving tablets and if the situation is serious they give intravenous injections . |
| 3 | Goram now believes that Rangers can make the European Cup final in May . |
| 4 | He 'd always believed that humans were quite intelligent . |
| 5 | The people who do this , often expert in their own field , astronomy or whatever it may be , seem sincerely to believe that Darwinism explains living organization in terms of chance — " single- step selection " — alone . |
| 6 | Stella had been brought up to believe that Catholicism was a plague rather than a religion . |
| 7 | The American civil war decided something fundamental it did n't decide , as some people argue , that blacks were equal to whites this was w one of the least of Abraham Lincoln 's concerns Abraham Lincoln supported in the eighteen fifties , I throw this in for people who Americ and there 's usually an American in the audience who 's brought up to believe that Abraham Lincoln walks on the water , you know erm he actually suffered from syphilis by that 's by the way |
| 8 | He had been brought up to believe that marriage was for ever . |
| 9 | They are equally brought up to believe that marriage will provide them with a partner in whom to trust , who will love , protect and respect them . |
| 10 | He had been brought up to believe that policemen were havens of security , to whom you turned in times of trouble . |
| 11 | You see , one 's brought up to believe that Shakespeare 's always right ; but he was n't , when he said that . |
| 12 | Even a father who watches his son dying of cancer will go on believing that God is a loving father . |
| 13 | Leith could n't help feeling extremely sorry for her , especially when she discovered that Rosemary , brought up believing that marriages were forever , could not accept that her marriage was over — even though it had ended up such a disaster and Derek was now asking for a divorce . |
| 14 | Ba pe blamed ‘ Those damned Communists ’ , but Saw firmly believed that Aung San was responsible and stored up a grudge against him . |
| 15 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 16 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 17 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the British embassy did not believe that Britain was being written off as a " negligible " force , nor had the common Anglo-Saxon heritage been totally forgotten . |
| 19 | During a three-week sentencing hearing in late September and early October , however , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , of the US Federal District Court of Atlanta , declared that he did not believe that Drogoul was the sole orchestrator of the Iraqi loans , and alluded to Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documents which proved " definitely " that Drogoul had acted with the full knowledge of BNL 's head office in Rome . |
| 20 | She made exhaustion into a political virility symbol , and was foolishly critical of those who did not believe that decisions were best taken in a state of prostration . ’ |
| 21 | She did not believe that marriage , or pairing , or however you cared to define a sexual relationship , was the key to happiness and fulfilment ; you only had to look around you to see that this was not so . |
| 22 | On the whole , correspondents did not believe that church musicians receive as much encouragement as they deserve . |
| 23 | The incident had never been referred to again and Dorothea did not believe that Alida would remember it . |
| 24 | He did not believe that council reform should be at the top of the list of problems to be dealt with in Scotland . |
| 25 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 26 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 27 | Speakers at a Beverley antislavery meeting in 1824 did not believe that slaves needed ‘ foreign stimulus ’ to make them rebel ; their own sufferings were sufficient . |
| 28 | Later , in a letter to Max Born , he delivered himself of his celebrated remark that he did not believe that God ( whom he customarily referred to in comradely terms as " the Old One " ) played at dice . |
| 29 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 30 | ( 1977 ) , 50 per cent of Labour identifiers supported more nationalisation of industry , 61 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services , and 44 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power . |