Example sentences of "[pron] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cus D'Amato , the famed trainer who shaped Tyson 's career , was dismissive of teachers who believe that tall boxers were made to jab and move , relying mostly on their reach and mobility . |
| 32 | The one , posed by those who believe that new technologies do not , in the long run , have any effect on the overall level of employment , is along the lines of ‘ What happened to all the agricultural workers who left the land as new technology got applied to farming ? ’ |
| 33 | Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction . |
| 34 | The guillotine motion after 10 o'clock tonight will attempt to preclude sensible contributions , attempt to preclude people from dealing with the difficulties and technicalities in the Bill , and pose a real problem for those of us who believe that local government is not a political football to be kicked about at whim , but an essential part of our democracy for the provision of essential services . |
| 35 | On the other hand , there are those who believe that human rights violations are the work of Communist terrorists , based on information they receive from heavily censored press reports and the Armed Forces Press Commission . |
| 36 | It is favoured by all those who believe that institutional practices can be changed by persistence and goodwill , and by those who understand that the best way to defeat feminism is to co-opt its radical and rebellious potential . |
| 37 | Transformation is preferred over transaction by those who believe that participative decision-making is crucial , but most managers — and the Earley and Fletcher-Campbell study underlines this — prefer to operate in both styles according to the nature of the task and the attitudes of those with whom they work . |
| 38 | The less simple translation is that the battle continues between economic reformists and those hardliners , led politically by the prime minister , Li Peng , and ideologically by the 86-year-old Chen Yun , who believe that quick reform leads only too quickly to bourgeois liberalisation and peaceful evolution — witness the student democrats in 1989 in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square and the collapse of communism in the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 39 | Despite these occasional reservations , Norris writes as a disciple , who believes that other disciples , as well as Derrida 's enemies , have got him wrong . |
| 40 | I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution . |
| 41 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 42 | She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 43 | While the sport is in its infancy she believes that separate ladies ' events are needed to promote more participation . |
| 44 | 2 ) With a larger number of employees we believed that accurate routine manpower information in a number of key areas — such as labour turnover , recruitment , and pay and benefit levels — becomes a still more important issue . |
| 45 | Our final recommendations will , inevitably , reflect available resources and the international movement 's policies — for example , that all members should campaign on all parts of the Mandate — but we believe that new initiatives are possible . |
| 46 | As with external assessment in the primary phase , we believe that new methods of testing pupils ' reading skills may need to be devised , building on the best of GCSE practice . |
| 47 | We believe that political power is best exercised at the most local level possible , consistent with good government . |
| 48 | We welcome the emphasis on Communication as the main aim of language teaching , but we believe that real communication can only be achieved when there is a sound knowledge of linguistic structure . |
| 49 | We believe that empirical findings of value gains in unrelated diversifications are overstated because the results of corporate catalysts are included . |
| 50 | We believe that effective language learning is a partnership between school , teacher and student , with the school providing the best possible conditions and environment for learning — high academic standards , well-equipped buildings and classrooms , up-to-date teaching materials and aids , well-organised course programmes , and a wide range of extra-curricular facilities and services . |
| 51 | In patients with amyloidosis , therefore , we believe that chemical typing of the amyloid protein is very important in predicting the clinical characteristics , course , and prognosis of the disease . |
| 52 | Together with the Alliance Party , our sister party and the only non-sectarian political party in Northern Ireland , we believe that mutual respect , shared responsibilities and decentralised government are the only basis for a lasting solution to the troubles of Northern Ireland . |
| 53 | We believe that young people should be free to choose between college , work-based training and sixth form studies . |
| 54 | We believe that retired people who have worked all their lives are entitled to a decent standard of living . |
| 55 | We have introduced savings schemes such as TESSAs , and we believe that excess taxation is iniquitous when we seek to encourage people both to save and to invest in our economy . |
| 56 | We believe that regional government has proved to be a key economic regenerator of many of the European regions . |
| 57 | We insist on integrity because we believe that internal compromises would deny what is often called " equality before the law " and sometimes " formal equality . " |
| 58 | We believe that Y-PCR testing , followed by a physical examination of positive cases , is a valid method of verifying the genetic sex of large numbers of people . |
| 59 | We believe that mass media and other forms of communication must contribute to peace , justice and understanding . |
| 60 | We believe that British Coal can achieve a significant share of the coal market for generation in the new contracts which begin in 1993 , and we believe that it will be able to achieve that at competitive prices . |