Example sentences of "[verb] to believe [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then everyone starts to believe in this group . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When we are persuaded to believe in this truth , then the theatre and life are one . |
| 5 | He does not have to believe on reasonable grounds that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and so on : Lambert [ 1972 ] Crim LR 422 , where the accused threatened to tell the victim 's employers of his affair with the accused 's wife . |
| 6 | Well I do n't happen to believe in public authority sites . |
| 7 | But all the while I was led to believe by this statement another thing is that the day that made the made the appointment for me to appear , sorry are you reading ? |
| 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 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 11 | He was not rebuked because he refused to believe without enough reasons but because he refused to believe with more than enough reasons . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |