Example sentences of "[verb] believe in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 2 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 3 | Then everyone starts to believe in this group . |
| 4 | The older generation tends to believe in such dishes as health cures , aphrodisiacs or a source of physical and mental strength , while the prosperous young order them to impress their friends . |
| 5 | When we are persuaded to believe in this truth , then the theatre and life are one . |
| 6 | Well I do n't happen to believe in public authority sites . |
| 7 | What one would have believed in certain circumstances is equally immaterial to what one should now believe . |
| 8 | I must have always wanted to believe in those things ; I did believe in them in a vague sort of way , before I met him . |
| 9 | Is not it disgraceful that the Government are destroying living standards , yet they claim to believe in human values ? |
| 10 | ‘ We do believe in regional government , but a regional government that draws powers from Whitehall so the powers currently exercised by central government are brought to the North and other regions . ’ |
| 11 | But I say I believe in in one respect alright , she 's got the car she can whip in and out but I do believe in another respect she 's got to the point where she ca n't be bothered ! |
| 12 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 13 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 14 | So she does believe in this picture of herself in a murder scene . |
| 15 | If nothing else , she enjoyed feeling needed ; but sometimes she dreamed with disturbing vividness about the managing director , who had believed in full-length mirrors , bottles of champagne and the importance of taking one 's time . |
| 16 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |
| 17 | But , even though in 1983 we have our own depression and the shadow of the bomb hangs over us , we seem to want to believe in astral goodies , cuddly ETs who , when we have close encounters with them , make us deeper , more meaningful beings through imbibing their goodness and wisdom . |