Example sentences of "[verb] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Mr Deputy Speaker , as the honourable members knows , our S S A calculations are on slightly different basis from England as we set out in this report and we do believe that local authorities should have the maximum flexibility to make their own decisions and it is therefore a matter for local debate . |
| 33 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 34 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 35 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |
| 36 | They were encouraged to believe that external agents would tackle the problem of a territorial settlement . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 39 | Most catastrophists preferred to believe that some form of supernatural agency was involved in the appearance of each new population . |
| 40 | We come to believe that good writing shows how clever we are . |
| 41 | Staff in a contemporary prison service or department of corrections come to believe that further training , or advanced training , or some other form of in-service training , is necessary if they are to become more ‘ professional ’ . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The survey found that half the people questioned believe that catalytic converters would be the most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions , and another 20 per cent believe that using lead free petrol will slow down global warming . |
| 44 | The Nassau agreement , however , did not silence those influential Americans who continued to believe that British policy and thus Anglo-American relations were in need of serious reappraisal . |
| 45 | His mother had believed that forty-watt bulbs were perfectly adequate for overhead lights . |
| 46 | bureaucratic managers need to believe that all employees are individuals and that the individuals matter ; |
| 47 | He refused to believe that physical laws should not make a definite , unambiguous prediction for what would happen . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | A mechanic for Britax France refused to believe that British installation charges did not include the cost of the seat as well , ‘ It takes 10 or 15 minutes at the most , ’ he said . |
| 50 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 51 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |