Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 50% of Britons and 38% of Germans believed that Mr Reagan 's foreign policy had increased the dangers of war in Europe . |
| 2 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 3 | However , scientists from the University of Chicago believe that theropods and ornithopods seem to have had brains relatively larger ( body mass for body mass ) than reptiles , hinting at mammalian-like complex behaviour . |
| 4 | Around 60% of participants believed that laws covering industrial pollutants and effluents , and recycling , were not tough enough , and virtually all thought that industry should place a high priority on cutting pollution and conserving energy . |
| 5 | i As the new voluntary agreement on tobacco advertising is about to be published , a survey by the market research group Mintel has revealed that 61% of Britons believe that tobacco advertising should not be allowed . |
| 6 | To start with the good news , 77% of respondents believed that audit regulation had improved the quality of auditing in their practices . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State believes that Polytechnics — and indeed other colleges which are suitably staffed and equipped — should be able to make a valuable contribution to the research needs of industry on their own distinctive lines and particularly in specialist fields of direct interest to industry in their areas . |
| 8 | Those who oppose the ordination of women believe that God intends them to have a different role in the Church from men — though an equally valid one . |
| 9 | So for Rabbit to believe that P is true is just for him to believe P , i.e. to believe that there 's honey . |
| 10 | Almost everyone in Britain and the United States who has any acquaintance with law believes that Parliament and Congress and the various state legislatures make law and that past judicial decisions must be given credit in later ones . |
| 11 | Yet the former has sufficient Spanish flavour , as does the Minkus score fur Don Quixote , for audiences to believe that characters really would perform in the way they do to the kind of music provided . |
| 12 | Unidroit , for example , goes to considerable trouble , by means of consultations with representative international organizations and by questionnaires to specialists and to governments which in turn consult their national organizations , to establish that those practising in the field in question believe that differences in national laws create a problem and that harmonization would bring benefits . |
| 13 | Its success will depend upon people believing that Mr Lamont knows what he was doing , and that his forecasts are reliable ; and it is difficult not to reflect that an alternative Chancellor would have had carried more conviction . |
| 14 | Many western diplomats in Cairo believe that Mr Mubarak , though weakened , has weathered the worst and is capable of handling what could become a drawn-out war with Islamic extremists . |
| 15 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 16 | But since ( Rabbit believes ) Pooh will in fact believe that Rabbit believes what he says , this need n't make Rabbit say ‘ I believe there 's honey ’ : it need only make him say ‘ There 's honey ’ . |