Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] believe [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not believe in love . |
| 2 | He did not believe in dwelling on things . |
| 3 | We must remember that in 1600 , when Galileo was at Padua , the Inquisition had burned Giordano Bruno to death for daring to say that he did not believe in transubstantiation of bread into body and wine into the blood of Christ at the Eucharist . |
| 4 | But Landau 's clients were young and rich and did not believe in death . |
| 5 | ‘ Until early 1985 members of the gay community did not believe in AIDS , ’ says the President of the Rio homosexual group , Pink Triangle . |
| 6 | The second , Phan Chu Trinh , did not believe in violence . |
| 7 | She did not believe in sin , after all , and her people knew only sensual gratification , he knew , not the higher principle of love between man and woman . |
| 8 | The powers-that-were did not believe in explanation . |
| 9 | Few anthropologists share this optimistic view and I certainly do not believe in witchcraft . |
| 10 | I do not believe in uniqueness . |
| 11 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 12 | First thing , Miss Schlegel , is : do not believe in relativism . |
| 13 | Almost contemplatively , he said , ‘ Since I am an atheist and do not believe in God , I do not believe in sin in the sense you intend the word . |
| 14 | I do not believe in patronage even from the Labour front bench . |
| 15 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 16 | Flaubert did n't believe in progress : especially not in moral progress , which is all that matters . |
| 17 | 3 That he did n't believe in progress . |
| 18 | But she 'd told Fen she did n't believe in sex before marriage . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought he did n't believe in history . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't want another one , ’ said Scarlet , ‘ and I thought you did n't believe in divorce . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My dad did n't believe in mourning . |
| 22 | And that was ever so good of him really , because he did n't believe in religion or anything , and if ever two people were entitled to belong to each other before they were married , she and Len were those people . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you did n't believe in star signs ? ’ |
| 24 | They were old-fashioned and did n't believe in scent for men despite the efforts of people like Brian . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't believe in marriage , ’ said Constance , ‘ only you 've got to consider your hormones , and if you 've got no skills , you 've got to get married . ’ |
| 26 | One teacher made a different point : I do n't believe in competition … |
| 27 | I do n't believe in romance . ’ |
| 28 | It 's rather late for the press releases on some months later , the press release coming from my group and coming from the Labour group it was a late conversion but not much of a conversion let's face it , the word tokenism springs to mind that 's what I 've written next to the Conservative line there , totally , and I do n't believe in nursery education but they know there are votes in it . |
| 29 | I do n't believe in love at first sight , and I think it 's a dangerous philosophy . |
| 30 | Do n't believe in zebra crossings in Redditch . |