Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 2 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 3 | Did he really expect her to believe that Tara was only the housekeeper ? |
| 4 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 5 | The company says it believes that Macrovision may be applicable in interactive video products such as Philips ' Compact Disk-Interactive , games machines and multimedia computers . |
| 6 | They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work , which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness . |
| 7 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 8 | Conventional corporate finance leads us to believe that debt financing is usually cheaper than equity financing . |
| 9 | He added ‘ The way we see the client-server and distributed data processing market leads us to believe that Unix has a clear advantage over any other operating system . ’ |
| 10 | The Government would have us believe that students have never had it so good . |
| 11 | Some would have us believe that obscenity and pornography have no social impact . |
| 12 | I READ that some people ( HAS January 30 ) would have us believe that history did not take place in Hitler 's Nazi Germany . |
| 13 | Whereas rumour led him to believe that Robert Beaumont was a cultivated man , likely to appreciate music . |
| 14 | Efforts of NALGO 's membership to develop policies for dealing with HIV infection and employment , and getting these converted into policy , have , however , led me to believe that NALGO membership is important not simply because of the wider political issues involved , but because HIV threatens employment security . |
| 15 | The recent series of disasters from The Herald of Free Enterprise onwards , has led us to believe that Britain is particularly unsafe . |
| 16 | When you gave up painting , did you believe that painting was dead ? |
| 17 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 18 | Do you believe that man can levitate ? ’ |
| 19 | Do you believe that life is full of suffering ? |
| 20 | Erm if you look at the next speech he makes , he says , do you believe that people learn nothing from history ? |
| 21 | Do you believe that anger is destructive ? |
| 22 | Whichever it is , do you believe that God answers your prayers ? |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher was apparently informed of the French decision during the Strasbourg session on monetary union last weekend and it may well have encouraged her to believe that Britain 's European partners are now ready to take the difficult decisions which are a prelude to monetary union . |
| 24 | And in this sense it must be said that the Resistance experience , by making us believe that politics is a relationship between man and man or between consciousnesses , fostered our illusions of 1939 and masked the truth of the incredible power of history which the Occupation taught us in another connection . |
| 25 | But City sources said they believed that Mr Lawson might reinforce the fight against inflation without resorting to another increase in base rates , by announcing a further tightening of monetary policy in next Thursday 's Mansion House speech . |
| 26 | That is to say they believe that God was in some sense differently related to particular events , or may be said in particular to have revealed God 's self through those events , in a way in which this is not true of all other events or periods in history . |
| 27 | If she has a religious faith which enables her to believe that death is not the end and that she and her husband will be re-united one day , she should be supported and encouraged in this , as it is something really positive on which she can begin to rebuild the rest of her life . |
| 28 | There can be no doubt , therefore , that whether they are correct or not , Ibn Hajar and the sources which follow him believe that Molla Fenari died in Rajab 834 . |
| 29 | The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’ |
| 30 | The original trigger for the stories was a note sent to clients by Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh , in which he said he believed that IBM plans to cut as many as 40,000 jobs this year , which would require yet another charge of about $1,000m to make up the provisions short-fall . |