Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hierarchical reductionist believes that carburettors are explained in terms of smaller units which are explained in terms of smaller units … , which are ultimately explained in terms of the smallest of fundamental particles . |
| 2 | On the basis of his behaviour , therefore , we have reason to maintain that Fido believes that bones are related to his desires or preferences in the following way : Bones satisfy certain desires he has and are to be chosen to satisfy those desires . |
| 3 | With the late Michael Mansbridge 's book we are introduced to John Nash , to many the Regency architect par excellence ( although this reviewer believes that John Buonarotti Papworth is more deserving of that accolade ) . |
| 4 | This administration believes that government has been attempting to do too much . |
| 5 | Does my hon. Friend believe that interest rates should be reduced by 0.5 per cent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the contrary , many in the popular movement believe that Fatah has more interest , as one activist put it , in hospitals than in mobile health clinics , in bureaucracy than in local control , and in co-operation with the economic and political notables than with grass-roots movements . |
| 8 | Christians I have suggested , if they are rightly to be named Christians , must in some sense believe that God was in a unique way related to Christ , so that he becomes particular for them , and they are ( as I am not ) in their religion related to history . |
| 9 | What led this school to believe that labour availability was less important than other factors in both the 1960s and the early '70s ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It would be some comfort to believe that Luke had turned to his old mistress only as second-best … |
| 12 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the monks of the later date believed that Archbishop Becket had intended to confirm , but had been prevented by his death from confirming , their monastic privileges with regard to many matters such as their rights in the consecration of bishops , in the appointment and dismissal of monastic officers , in the distribution of chrism and holy oil for the whole province , in the receipt of various revenues from the Canterbury manors , and the prohibition of any future move of the archbishopric from Canterbury . |
| 15 | The styles and values of both employees and managers currently support a job design philosophy that has its roots in work study and industrial engineering practice , and it flies in the face of conventional wisdom to believe that jobs can actually be designed rather than simply be the result of technologically determined requirements . |
| 16 | There is strong evidence to believe that Bamford was representative in another respect : their first child was present at the wedding . |
| 17 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But in this respect too there is good reason to believe that things have recently begun to go seriously wrong : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister believes that employers should provide it or that women should be able to afford it . |
| 24 | Does the Prime Minister believe that pensioners were paid too much in 1979 , or will he express regret at that meanness and raise pensions in line with Labour 's plans ? |
| 25 | Old-style socialism believed that wealth came solely from the toil of exploited workers . |
| 26 | Unlike the sentimental francophile in Downing Street , the American president believed that France had ceased , for the foreseeable future , to be a great power . |
| 27 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 28 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 29 | In a statement Prosecutor-General Gheorghe Robu said there was no longer any reason to believe that Munteanu 's release from " preventive detention " would endanger public order , although Munteanu remained under investigation pending possible charges . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm left with extremely uncomfortable questions about what makes men tick and I do n't see any reason to believe that men in the former Yugoslavia are different from men elsewhere . |