Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some researchers believe that sebum encourages bonding between men and women . |
| 2 | This administration believes that government has been attempting to do too much . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend believe that interest rates should be reduced by 0.5 per cent . |
| 4 | This court believes that discovery does not take place within [ a state 's ] borders merely because documents to be produced somewhere else are located there . |
| 5 | Some people believe that gossip should not be indulged in or listened to . |
| 6 | One in five British GPs believes that homeopathy is better than Western medicine . |
| 7 | Few people believe that insubordination is an important offence for street-sweepers and should be punished by incarceration or even death . |
| 8 | Some theorists believe that hydrogen becomes a metallic solid where its electrons freely flow when compressed by two or three million atmospheres pressure ; there have been speculations that metallic hydrogen could be useful as a fusion fuel . |
| 9 | Again , like egalitarian feminists , woman-centred feminists believe that subjectivity is an important part of gender relations . |
| 10 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 11 | What led this school to believe that labour availability was less important than other factors in both the 1960s and the early '70s ? |
| 12 | They had been long debated , but it should be emphasized how few individuals at this time believed that poverty could actually be eliminated , except perhaps in the very long run . |
| 13 | If Roman Catholics believe that abortion is always wrong and contrary to God 's law , there is no compromise they can be offered , or which they can accept , which will satisfy their principles . |
| 14 | Liberal Democrats believe that unemployment is a key issue which must be tackled head on , and I am glad of the opportunity to address the issue presented by this debate . |
| 15 | These researchers believe that mefloquine is safe for people who have no history of neuropsychiatric disorders . |
| 16 | There is also an increasing awareness amongst neo-Marxists that the failure of state socialist regimes ' consumer markets and productivity rates to compare favourably with Western capitalism gives workers in capitalist society little reason to believe that socialism will improve their material prosperity . |
| 17 | Many hoteliers believe that leisure facilities give them the edge over their competitors in relation to conference business . |
| 18 | All Russians believe that garlic cures the common cold . |
| 19 | The causes of dandruff are not known , but many experts believe that stress plays a big part . |
| 20 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 21 | ‘ Many people believe that depression is something that the sufferer brings on themselves and all they have to do is pull themselves together , ’ explained Sean O'Reilly of Aware . |
| 22 | Many people believe that abortion on the grounds of mental handicap is particularly unjust . |
| 23 | Many people believe that alcohol is a stimulant because most drinkers seem to become more outgoing and friendly in social settings . |
| 24 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 25 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints . |
| 27 | Unless the applicant for service has good reason to believe that service by simple delivery will be accepted , he should supply a translation , for there is otherwise a risk of delay while the Central Authority reports that that mode of delivery has failed and requests a translation of the document . |
| 28 | French cosmetic scientists believe that water retention and toxic wastes build up in pockets of fat on the hips and bottom . |
| 29 | Some linguistic scholars believe that language shapes thought , rather than vice versa . |
| 30 | Old-style socialism believed that wealth came solely from the toil of exploited workers . |