Example sentences of "[pron] believe that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 2 | Nor do I believe that private sector training is the answer . |
| 3 | In looking at routes to permanence I have already indicated that I believe that long-term fostering will be the best route for a number , albeit a diminishing number , of children in care . |
| 4 | It is not practical for her to travel to Alton for the hearing of her case , and I believe that genuine hardship is going to result . ’ |
| 5 | I believe that total employment in manufacturing on the Chirton Estate is unlikely to exceed 3000 , although there are some jobs in retailing . |
| 6 | I believe that great progress will be made . |
| 7 | I believe that real democracy is allowing voters to decide in a general election and not in a referendum , which is a totally different thing , and one that is alien to my concept of democracy . |
| 8 | I believe that philosophical inquiry is , by its very nature , open and untechnical . |
| 9 | I believe that monetary union is political union , and that the creation of a single currency is federalism . |
| 10 | I believe that local democracy was not very responsibly exercised by some people in the years that have just gone by . ’ |
| 11 | However , I believe that particular gamble is often lost by negative press coverage . |
| 12 | One might be asked to report upon one 's beliefs to a psychologist or sociologist , interested in current opinion on matters biological , and say ‘ I believe that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life ’ . |
| 13 | Why should I accept even the very small risk of living near a dump site for nuclear waste when I believe that nuclear power is costly , dangerous and unneeded ? |
| 14 | I believe that steady progress is being made , as my hon. Friend says . |
| 15 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 16 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 17 | Do you believe that German-speaking art historians will increasingly turn their attention to home-grown art ? |
| 18 | You believe that artistic expression involves some kind of radical transformation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We believe that political power is best exercised at the most local level possible , consistent with good government . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We believe that regional government has proved to be a key economic regenerator of many of the European regions . |
| 30 | 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 . |