Example sentences of "[conj] believe that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout her work , she tends to regard the happy , mature , and stable woman as an ideal reached only occasionally , and to believe that most women are unhappy and inclined to unworthy behaviour . |
| 2 | Biochemists , particularly , tend to confuse these two and believe that all problems can be solved by isolating and giving names to molecules — which are the mechanisms . |
| 3 | The unions hope to embarrass Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , with tomorrow 's lobby and believe that many Tories at the conference back their call for an increased offer . |
| 4 | The second reason , less plausibly , is that they regard non-shareholder groups as having legitimate claims on the company and believe that these claims should be satisfied even though a reduction in shareholder wealth is involved . |
| 5 | They see a need to identify those children requiring new parents , and believe that social workers should be more committed to placing children with new parents in permanent homes ; and they note a greater commitment to this policy in the United States . |
| 6 | He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need . |
| 7 | While believing that few teachers were intentionally racist , and while not accepting that racism was the sole cause of West Indian underachievement , the committee concluded that unintentional racism ( in the sense of stereotyped , negative or patronising views of West Indian children ) was widespread and did influence children 's performance . |
| 8 | It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice . |