Example sentences of "[adv] believe that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 2 | I had long believed that the primary health care team did not really work but that it could be made to do so by adhering to contracts . |
| 3 | Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference . |
| 4 | Mr Waterfield likens a game of croquet to a game of snooker and personally believes that the outdoor game preceded the indoor , with both based on similar objectives . |
| 5 | I do not believe that the genuine asylum seeker will be treated fairly . |
| 6 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 7 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . " |
| 8 | The Royal Commission did not believe that the existing local authorities were in a position to meet the challenges they had identified . |
| 9 | To put this differently and more technically , I do not believe that the causal nexus of history , or that of nature , could be broken . |
| 10 | I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken . |
| 11 | Do not denigrate our streets as terrible after just one day in Birmingham ; do not believe that the only person you will find reading a book will be a ‘ broken winged angel ’ guarding a tomb in the city centre ! |
| 12 | If war broke out he did not believe that the Soviet Union would mount a localised attack on Japan . |
| 13 | I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police . |
| 14 | We do not believe that the anti-neutrophil antibody in PSC is similar to that found in Wegener 's granulomatosis for three reasons . |
| 15 | We do not believe that the mental element can be substantiated by simply showing an intent to apply force and no more . " |
| 16 | C. Wright Mills saw professionals as increasingly becoming the servants of the rich and powerful , but he did not believe that the individual professionals themselves were losing their power and influence . |
| 17 | I do not believe that the current management at British Rail is capable of building the project , although I believe that it needs building . |
| 18 | On the general point , I do not believe that the substantial improvement in productivity has arisen through a reduction in the number of disabled people in the mines . |
| 19 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 20 | She did not believe that the wicked could be caught by ten-year-old children and returned to the police station in exchange for a pony , any more than she believed that constant hot water would make young mothers smile constantly with relief and proud love . |
| 21 | Tal Goff L.J. , while accepting that the distinction between jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional error of law was obsolete , did not believe that the Anisminic principle should apply ‘ with full force ’ to every inferior court , and emphasised that the reviewing court should not intervene ‘ merely because some error of law has been committed during an inquest . ’ |
| 22 | My colleagues and I do not believe that the British people will be fooled a second time — one can take a horse to water but one can not make it drink . |
| 23 | I do not believe that the British public are prepared to move to a property tax . |
| 24 | I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman correctly states the law . |
| 25 | I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman has visited the city technology college in Bradford . |
| 26 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |
| 27 | The size of the problem is comparable , but I do not believe that the post-war reconstruction programme in Europe is a good model for what is required in the Commonwealth of Independent States . |
| 28 | Could it be their governments do not believe that the Iraqi regime will eventually be forced to make good the costs of the operation ? |
| 29 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |
| 30 | We do not believe that the orthodox account provides a satisfactory explanation of the crisis , for reasons we shall be giving shortly . |