Example sentences of "[adj] believe that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some believe that new plants flourish if their early growth coincides with the growing of a new moon . |
| 2 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 3 | Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery . |
| 4 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 5 | The Woolwich insists that it has no plans to introduce them , while the Abbey National believes that fluctuating payments ‘ show their value in weeks like the one we 've just had ’ . |
| 6 | They offered no alternative strategies , but all believed that encouraging children to enjoy good books freely was the soundest way of holding on to readers and of creating a new generation of them . |
| 7 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 8 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 9 | However , it is difficult to believe that sufficient quantities of suitable substances could have appeared at the Cytherean surface to mop up anywhere near the amount of oxygen that would be liberated from an Earth-like quantity of water . |
| 10 | That believes that local councils should operate services , should do it at the dictate of the department of the environment and indeed it 's regrettable that we are surrounded by some local authorities who feel that their world is precisely that . |