Example sentences of "[pron] believe that [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , that is why I I b , that is why I 'm against the amendment , I believe that decisions have been made . |
| 2 | Much has been done in recent months to draw those matters to the attention of the Department and , as I said , I believe that Ministers have been listening . |
| 3 | So far wheels , frame and chimney have been built and I believe that progress has been made on the boiler . |
| 4 | I believe that councils have an important role to play . |
| 5 | There must come a point at which man must stop trying to decide his own destiny , and I believe that point has come now , in our time . |
| 6 | I believe that pensioners have had a raw deal and I fully support the petition which states : |
| 7 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 8 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 9 | I had once read a story by Arthur C. Clarke about a Tibetan sect which believed that God had nine billion names . |
| 10 | As it happens , of course , this conclusion conforms to the observations of Freud , who believed that women had less sense of justice than men and are more often influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility . |
| 11 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 12 | If you believe that discrimination has occurred against yourself , a colleague or a member of the public , you are responsible for reporting this at once to your manager or personnel section . |
| 13 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 14 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 15 | She believes that Hewlett-Packard has now carved itself enough of a breathing space to be able to consider various options at both ends of the market . |
| 16 | We believe that women have their own needs and are capable of deciding what is best for them . |
| 17 | We believe that parents have the most important influence on their children and that the basis of a sound school education is the partnership between the home and the school . |
| 18 | If we believe that humans have evolved , we are liable to assume that our subjective experiences are shared by other animals . |
| 19 | We believe that Christ has made possible the redemption of all humanity — of men and women equally . |
| 20 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 21 | In this extract the hero approaches Stonehenge : Some readers have found the human sacrifice image ‘ juvenile ’ , and it is reminiscent of the general level of The Vale of Esthwaite ; but in Wordsworth 's defence one must point out that everybody believed that Stonehenge had been the scene of human sacrifice , and continued to do so until this century ( see , for instance , Hardy 's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ) . |
| 22 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 23 | They believe that death has been conquered and that it is not the end of life . |
| 24 | But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ . |
| 25 | A painter himself , he was attracted to the problems he believed that Cézanne had faced and solved in composition and technique . |
| 26 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 27 | In the first place , he believed that Marx had bequeathed a method of analysing the social process which was scientific , which went to the very roots of reality . |
| 28 | He would not treat them as sources of law past that point , but his general responsibility when he believes that law has run out is to make the best new law he can for the future , and he might be concerned with past legal doctrine for special reasons bearing on that issue . |
| 29 | He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources . |
| 30 | He believes that Signet has given his firm a competitive advantage — ‘ a major part of our practice is providing advice to all types of businesses and the sophistication of our system helps us to service our clients ’ needs more efficiently ’ . |