Example sentences of "to believe [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 2 | Both families refuse to believe Ian would kill his wife and children . |
| 3 | So for Rabbit to believe that P is true is just for him to believe P , i.e. to believe that there 's honey . |
| 4 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 5 | Anna allowed herself to believe Vronsky 's attention to her displeased her but before she even encouraged him she realised that sadly this ‘ persecution ’ was the sole interest of her life . |
| 6 | Moreover , given the disparity in actual salaries , it is unlikely that the more general " managerial labour market " constraint on operation is fully effective since , as we said in chapter 3 , it is likely that the public sector trawls for talent in a different pool , at least in the UK.6 On the assumption that the people actually being appointed were ( unlike their private sector counterparts ) altruistic , this would be no bad thing , but it would be foolish to believe altruism were always the case . |
| 7 | We have reason to believe Tammuz Malamute is involved . ’ |
| 8 | It 's hard to believe Marie 's got a husband . |
| 9 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 10 | They talk in joke Scottish voices to each other and joke Scottish German voices , and act out the scenes of depressive Presbyterian fornication in which they affect to believe Neil 's evenings are spent . |
| 11 | Hey , this is my lavatory here , they have to believe work . |
| 12 | Later , if we are to believe Cicero , De divinatione 5.90 , his friend and guest , the Druid Divitiacus , gave answers in perfect Posidonian style : " et naturae rationem quam Graeci appellant , notam esse sibi profitebatur " . |
| 13 | ‘ Venables laughed and said that the deal was worth over £4m to Lineker but no one could be expected to believe Tottenham would get more than £1m . |
| 14 | I was so aggravated that I was prepared to believe Brenda on the switchboard was lying on his behalf , pretending there was no reply . |
| 15 | We are led to believe Eve tempted Adam with an apple . |
| 16 | I myself flatly refused to believe Darwin 's theory when I first heard about it as a child . |
| 17 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 18 | Walter Swinburn finds it hard to believe Zilzal will ever be beaten and the son of Nureyev will attempt to extend his sequence to six out of six in next month 's Breeders ' Cup Mile in Florida . |
| 19 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 22 | Now , it 's not then that society does n't believe in the supernatural , we believe in the supernatural , society at large believes in the supernatural , the tragedy is that the natural man , the natural person however , as always is more willing to believe Satan 's mysteries than he is to believe God 's mysteries . |
| 23 | The same applies to Manchester ; though again there is no reason to believe recovery is imminent : fringe areas there are suffering . |
| 24 | I realised that the detail and the logic of the story made it impossible not to believe Fearnley . |
| 25 | The tippee need not only knowingly obtain the information from an individual connected with a company ( as defined above ) who he knows or has reasonable cause to believe holds the information by being so connected , he must also know or have reasonable cause to expect that individual not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of that individuals duties . |
| 26 | Do we now feel a compulsion to believe things again ? |
| 27 | One of the most remarkable contributions opens the book : Monte San , born in the 1880s , in an age where the then sovereign , Queen Victoria , refused to believe lesbians existed anywhere , let alone in the British Empire 's colonies ) Bradstock and Wakeling have done an admirable job in putting together a collection of personal essays that explore the inner and outer ramifications of being a lesbian , in the last hundred years of the myth-shrouded place that is Australia . |
| 28 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 29 | In a Well-publicised case , the parents of a baby who died refused to believe evidence in court , and there was no conviction . |
| 30 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |