Example sentences of "[noun] to believe that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You encourage your readers to believe that one day their prince will come . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It would be a contradictory state of affairs to believe that higher education could maintain one kind of culture within itself and could underpin a quite different kind of culture within society at large : there could not be any fundamental incongruity between these two cultural functions of higher education . |
| 4 | It requires a lot of faith to believe that such questioning will actually be recognized , liked and rewarded . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The attempt was inspired by the work of the Logical Positivists in the 1930s , notably Rudolph Carnap , Carl Hempel , and Ernest Nagel , and prompted very many social scientists to believe that scientific method could be boldly distilled in diagrams like Figure 3.1 . |
| 7 | In a King George 's Jubilee Trust report , The Needs of Youth ( 1939 ) , A. E. Morgan was another who brooded over ‘ a growing contempt by the young person for the procedures of juvenile courts ’ and the ‘ grave reason to believe that parental control is slackening ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " 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 . " |
| 11 | There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell . |
| 12 | In November 1991 the Social Services Department of the local authority had reason to believe that this condition was being repeatedly and grossly breached . |
| 13 | Nevertheless there is every reason to believe that some control applied at various stages of industrial exploitation could benefit the trade on a global scale . |
| 14 | Without its support we still have no reason to believe that any agreement will be reached behind the veil of ignorance . |
| 15 | Have you any reason to believe that either set of parents might make demands on either partner which would make ‘ leaving ’ difficult ? |
| 16 | But addiction to chemicals is clearly real , and there seems no reason to believe that compulsive chemical-taking is necessarily in a different class from other acquired compulsive habits . |
| 17 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |