Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very serious matter the election to Labour 's shadow cabinet and I do not want to believe that men would deliberately spoil their vote . |
| 2 | Conservative Members desperately want to believe that family breakdown is the cause , but the increase in family breakdowns is much smaller than the dramatic increase in homelessness . |
| 3 | As the weeks passed she finally began to believe that Penry Vaughan meant what he said , that their relationship was important enough to him to nurture with delicacy and care . |
| 4 | Humankind can not afford to believe that adjustments to our market-orientated economy will meet and solve the problems . |
| 5 | Moreover , it stands in dazzling contrast to the sombre pessimism of most novels by white writers who seem to suffer what Alice Walker herself defines as a debilitating sense of ‘ cosmic guilt ’ and who have largely ceased to believe that literature can actually do anything . |
| 6 | Christians are not required to believe that humanness is created in an instant , Dr Habgood tells House of Lords debate Opposition to embryo research mistaken , says archbishop Embryology Bill . |
| 7 | This was partly because they were unsure about the outcome , partly because they were not able to segment the market with precision , and partly because the account executives in their advertising agencies , in common with many media directors , still appear to believe that prosperity is equated with youth . |
| 8 | People have always needed to believe that individuals make films . |
| 9 | Can I , for the benefit of members opposite who , who always seem to believe that people on this side of the chamber are townies and do n't know anything about anything other than street lighting for the benefit of members opposite and for the public gallery outside , can I say that in my younger days , a million years ago , I rode with hunt . |
| 10 | Deckard , somewhat sentimentally , interprets this as a magnanimous gesture indicating reverence for life , since he by now wants to believe that replicants are as good as ( in practice , better than ) actual humans . |
| 11 | ‘ And I 'm really expected to believe that Donal , of his own bat , sent me to Wexford to meet you , knowing you were about to seek out my family , just to be friendly ? |
| 12 | Most of them really came to believe that Rhodesia had excellent race relations and that the war was perpetrated by ‘ communist-trained hand -inspired murdering scum ’ . |
| 13 | The counselling and procuring provisions are contained in s.1(7) and stipulate that it is an offence for , inter alios , any of the above mentioned insiders to counsel or procure any other person ( ie not only individuals ) to deal in the relevant securities , if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that person would deal in them on a recognized exchange . |
| 14 | Unreasonable refusal of access to a child in the course of inquiries is in itself a ground for making an emergency protection order where the applicant has reasonable cause to believe that access is required as a matter of urgency ( s44(1) ( b ) and see p149 ) . |
| 15 | We obstinately continue to believe that people from the education authority should be on the boards because that will allow collaboration . |
| 16 | They had n't wanted to believe that Kosi , Lars , Rachel and the rest were dead . |
| 17 | She had even begun to believe that Nora would understand this grand passion . |
| 18 | Yet like many in the Grand Army , Thiercelin was sometimes tempted to believe that Napoleon Bonaparte was not quite as other men . |
| 19 | It seems odd that the coal pfennig has been given the green light by Brussels when we have been continually led to believe that state aid for our coal industry would not be allowed . |