Example sentences of "[verb] believe [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 2 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 3 | In other words the tippee must , first , obtain from an individual , information which he knows to be unpublished price sensitive information ; secondly , he must know that the individual is a ‘ connected individual ’ within the meaning of the legislation ; thirdly , he must know or have reasonable cause to believe that that individual holds the information by virtue of being so connected ; and finally , he must know or have reasonable cause to expect that that individual should not have disclosed the information save for the proper performance of that individual 's duties . |
| 4 | And I kept telling him , yeah , Oliver , but the day that , you know , some Nicaraguan unity group appears and it 's evident that it 's got everybody in it … that 's the day I 'll begin to believe that this thing has a future . |
| 5 | They are polytheistic in that they seem to believe that many gods exist , but monotheistic in that they command obedience to only one of these many gods . |
| 6 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 7 | Children tend to believe that those adults around them are all-wise and all-powerful and it follows that whatever these adults say must be true . |
| 8 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 9 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 10 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 11 | ⅓ of drivers questioned believed that most accidents happen on Motorways . |
| 12 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 13 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
| 14 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 15 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 16 | First let her fear build up : let her come to believe that this prize , this catch of the season , would leave her not only as if she had never met him but somehow spoiled . |
| 17 | Most catastrophists preferred to believe that some form of supernatural agency was involved in the appearance of each new population . |
| 18 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 19 | bureaucratic managers need to believe that all employees are individuals and that the individuals matter ; |
| 20 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 21 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 22 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |