Example sentences of "[pron] believe that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at that stage , when I entered into the agreement , I believed that a marriage to Janice could have worked . ’ |
| 2 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 3 | Neither do I believe that a painter could have painted it — had he seen what I saw . |
| 4 | I believe that a London terminus of the right kind must be established to provide the right links to the north and the rest of England . |
| 5 | I have got past that stage many , many years ago , and I believe that a foreigner has equally as much right to live in the world as a Britisher . |
| 6 | I believe that a majority of people in this country want to make a success of our membership of the Community . |
| 7 | I believe that a port to Unix using the toolkit will take less time and resources than our conversion to support Apple 's system 7 . |
| 8 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |
| 9 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 10 | I believe that a criteria based policy might the best way forward for that . |
| 11 | I believe that a Christian 's position on this matter recognises the necessity for state action but goes on to argue that much of education , health and other welfare services could be quite adequately provided through the private sector , with the result that people would be free to exercise greater freedom of choice and also exercise greater responsibility over their lives . |
| 12 | I believe that a picture , a work of art , lives and dies just as we do . |
| 13 | I believe that a haircut can change people 's lives . |
| 14 | It is essential that Russia join the IMF at the earliest opportunity , and I believe that a stabilisation fund may need to follow if Russia is to have a prospect of establishing a successful market economy . |
| 15 | I , I , I believe that a lot of work 's going on . |
| 16 | I believe that a meeting has been arranged between the hon. Gentleman and the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | I believe that an element of local knowledge is essential if you are to acquire maximum enjoyment from this volume . |
| 18 | In particular , the international projection of nationally-headquartered firms ' corporate identity is a vexed issue : Siegel & Gale 's new survey of 50 leading Hungarian companies , for example , found that if all of them believed that a company 's image was important to building sales , most would also rather do business with German 's sharply-etched Volkswagen that with fuzzy French concerns . |
| 19 | Well if I could refer you , ma'am , to my paragraph three point seven of my supplementary statement , erm I do indicate there erm that the factors which make me believe that a location in this sector or these three sectors erm is a better one in far , as far as employment is concerned . |
| 20 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 21 | There were still those among the Shah 's military who believed that a coup against Khomeini was possible . |
| 22 | Anna Ford has often said that she believed that a woman should have had a role on our Election Night programmes . |
| 23 | ‘ Why do you believe that a computer system is inappropriate for your business ? ’ |
| 24 | For what reason do you believe that a relaxation , as you put it , of the greenbelt boundary from the deposit copy to the line you now propose , north of this important village , would not do so ? |
| 25 | If you believe that a glass of wine will sell a motor car , you are underestimating the customer . |
| 26 | Simply people who believe that a wrong was committed , which should be put right . |
| 27 | And both movements are in the throes of similar internal debates between those who believe that a step-by-step , incremental approach to reform is the best means to make progress and those who believe in a far more absolutist confrontational approach . |
| 28 | But this attitude is also typical of those who believe that a dog is just a dog — that a harsh voice and a hard hand will train each and every one of them . |
| 29 | The subjectivists have always insisted that a man who believes that a woman is consenting can not be guilty of rape . |
| 30 | Moreover , many actual nationalizations were indeed objectively functional for the restructuring of parts of the economy ‘ no longer organised as capital ’ as Fine and O'Donnell ( 1981 ) put it ; and the British Conservatives only attempted to reverse the post-war Labour government 's efforts ‘ where we believed that a measure of nationalisation was a real hindrance to our island life ( Winston Churchill , cited in Weiner 1960 : 80 ) . |