Example sentences of "[prep] believe [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , there is at least a prima facie case for believing that a word form like bank should be considered to represent more than one lexical unit . |
| 2 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 3 | Indeed , in 1781 the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote a monumental and very obscure work , The Critique of Pure Reason , in which he concluded that there were equally valid arguments both for believing that the universe had a beginning and for believing that it did not . |
| 4 | Yet the commercial farmers can be forgiven for believing that the decision to buy the white farms has been taken for short-term political reasons rather than longer-term ones of efficiency or fairness . |
| 5 | There remained grounds for believing that the mass of the working class could be persuaded to support a modified status quo and wider acceptance that the claims of labour for better conditions were either legitimate or , at least , necessitated some compromise to avoid a more threatening mass move to the left . |
| 6 | The European Court of Human rights held that extraditing a person to a State ‘ where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned , … faces a real risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the requesting country ’ engages the responsibility of the sending State . |
| 7 | The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) . |
| 8 | ( a ) Interim care and supervision orders Under s38(1) ( 2 ) the court can make an interim care or supervision order whenever the proceedings are adjourned provided it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the child 's circumstances fall within the ambit of s31(2) . |
| 9 | However , there are good reasons for believing that the interpretation of discourse in more natural situations does involve the integration of related pieces of information in memory . |
| 10 | In the case of serious arrestable offences the rights can be postponed for up to 36 hours on the authority of an officer of at least the rank of superintendent if that officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the exercise of either right would : ( a ) lead to interference with evidence connected with a serious arrestable offence ; ( b ) lead to interference with or physical injury to other persons ; ( c ) " tip-off " other persons suspected of a serious arrestable offence ; ( d ) hinder the recovery of property . |
| 11 | It would only be right to have regard to facilities if there are objective grounds for believing that the lender will fulfil his commitment . |
| 12 | Instead , there are good grounds for believing that the listener constructs a syntactic and semantic interpretation of the input word-by-word , and that this information is used to guide the processing of subsequent words . |
| 13 | In practice there are strong grounds for believing that the money stock is not entirely exogenous . |
| 14 | There seemed grounds for believing that the Thatcher government was , at least for a time , losing direction . |
| 15 | A constable has a right to search for a weapon if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the suspect might present a danger to himself or others , for example because he was acting violently or was drunk or suicidal . |
| 16 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |
| 17 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 18 | If the Bull God was Poteidan , and the sacral horns are bull horns , there is a prima facie case for believing that the shrine was dedicated to Poteidan . |
| 19 | Rather , an essential starting-point must be to identify what variety of this right is being invoked , and what are the reasons for believing that the right in question ought at all costs to be maintained . |
| 20 | For readers already familiar with the transmogrification of Sheffield from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to something altogether more ‘ pragmatic ’ , you could be forgiven for believing that the drama unfolding around the boardroom table was just one more step along this route , with committed socialists playing the stock market with the best of them . |
| 21 | All this gave strong grounds for believing that the body had been put into the sea near the house on stilts about the time of high water on Friday night . |
| 22 | Perhaps most importantly , it would seem that we have no grounds for believing that the meaning of a word , when viewed in this fashion , is finitely describable — without severe circumscription it is an unpromising candidate for formalisation , or representation in terms of logical or quasi-mathematical formulae . |
| 23 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 24 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 25 | The structure of section 7 , in my view , clearly contemplates the constable who has arrested the person bailed bringing him before the justice and stating his , that is to say the constable 's , grounds for believing that the defendant has broken a condition of his bail . |
| 26 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 27 | Having lived through the case in considerable detail since the writ was delivered in 1989 , nearly seven years after the audit report in question was signed off , I think I can say that there are some better grounds for believing that the result is good for the profession than are implied in your brief summary . |
| 28 | We may have a theoretical reason for believing that the variable we are studying will require a particular transformation . |
| 29 | There is good reason for believing that the recovery will be firmly established in the course of 1992. — Lamont , January 22 , 1992 |
| 30 | There are several reasons for believing that the answer is a resounding Yes . |