Example sentences of "[adv] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R placed great emphasis on the Government 's efforts in education , perhaps believing that this approach would evoke a sympathetic response from its recently educated African readership . |
| 2 | ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 6 f. , 1980 , pp. 60–63 ) We do none the less believe that certain connections hold between cause and effect . |
| 3 | ‘ At twenty he is still young and foolish enough to believe that all women are goddesses under the skin . |
| 4 | Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves . |
| 5 | Miliutin rightly believed that this practice gave rise to major administrative complications . |
| 6 | The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records . |
| 7 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 8 | But I do not believe that financial rewards are themselves enough or are important except in the Herzberg terms . |
| 9 | We do not believe that general practitioners will be overburdened . |
| 10 | Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election . |
| 11 | Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased . |
| 12 | We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations . |
| 13 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |
| 14 | I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time . |
| 15 | I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Treatment of non-specific infection in women is the same as for men , although some clinics do not believe that female contacts should be treated . |
| 17 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 18 | argument because the real reason for opposing the new clause is that the Government do not believe that private sector operations should be reviewed by any consumer body or consultative committee . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’ |
| 20 | It does not believe that all parents have been informed of their rights under the Act and it is critical of the lack of training for parent governors . |
| 21 | Although I know that he does , I do not believe that all parts of the House do share that view . |
| 22 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 23 | Nevertheless , he does not believe that clerical workers have an identical status to the working class . |
| 24 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 25 | I do not believe that British Rail has got it right . |
| 26 | Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose . |
| 27 | But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent . |
| 28 | In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it . |
| 29 | Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for . |
| 30 | As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ . |