Example sentences of "[verb] believe [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to points three and four above , the prosecution has the choice of proving that the tippee either knew or had reasonable cause to believe the stipulated circumstances . |
| 2 | I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds . |
| 3 | She stared at him speechlessly , hardly daring to believe the hidden meaning behind his words , then , just as she managed to find her voice , there was a knock at the door . |
| 4 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 5 | The tabloid editors continue to believe the royal family sells papers better than anything else . |
| 6 | Paul tells the Ephesians that having heard the word of truth and having believed the good news of salvation , they are ‘ in Christ ’ and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit who was promised long ago ( 1:13 , cf. 2 Cor. 2:21 ) . |
| 7 | Dealing with one or two specific points that have been raised , particularly with regard to size , in my view the balanced community which can be envisaged within a new settlement will provide for housing , employment , community services , and recreational opportunities , it will not simply be a peripheral housing estate transferred to the open countryside , in my submission I have already stated that I do believe a new settlement of up to fourteen hundred dwellings should indeed be viable , and commercially attractive to the development industry . |
| 8 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 9 | The majority preferred to believe the picturesque stories passed down by parents and grandparents , which were , of course , accepted as the gospel truth . |
| 10 | In his mind , he had believed the female breed to be compliant , sighing creatures . |
| 11 | No-one wanted to believe the simple truth . |