Example sentences of "[conj] we believe that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The hon. Gentleman knows that although we believe that Kenya should proceed with all speed to multi-party elections , there is much preparatory work to be done .
2 When they spoke in the debate just before the war , Neil Kinnock and Gerald Kaufman said that a vote for the adjournment would not be a vote for war , that we believed that sanctions should be given longer .
3 We have made it clear for a long period that we believe that devolution or independence would damage very severely the degree of inward investment into Scotland and the degree of self-generating investment within Scotland as well .
4 It is probably too intrusive even to unconditionally ask the subject searcher to provide relevance information , and we believe that relevance judgements should only be requested if the system can detect that the user is either in trouble or being fairly persistent .
5 ‘ The object is to entertain the viewer , and we believe that Rebecca will help to do that . ’
6 ‘ The paperback market had now improved somewhat , and we believe that book production capacity and demand are more in balance than for some time ’ , he added .
7 If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity .
8 If we believe that Ireland can be purged of the Dark Lords and the Wolfline reinstated , then we will join with you . ’
9 This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood .
10 If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list .
11 If we believe that expectations about Y t are formed rationally then we must also believe that the actual value of Y t diverges from the value that people expect , by a random error which we label v t .
12 If we believe that humans have evolved , we are liable to assume that our subjective experiences are shared by other animals .
13 That is , unless we believe that language-users present each other with prefabricated chunks of linguistic strings ( sentences ) , after the fashion of Swift 's professors at the grand academy of Lagado ( Gulliver 's Travels , part 3 , chapter 5 ) , then we must assume that the data we investigate is the result of active processes .
14 And so , on 9 February , 1950 , to a startled audience of women Republicans in Wheeling , West Virginia , McCarthy raised the favourite bogey : ‘ How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster ?
15 But we believe that company car drivers should be able to enjoy the finer things in life without being taxed to the hilt .
16 But we believe that people can realise their potential best not as isolated individuals , but as members of thriving and responsible communities .
17 A One of the reasons our products are only sold through selected salons is because we believe that haircare needs the advice of a professional .
18 Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations .
19 ‘ We are doing it because we believe that Scotland , with its innovative financial community is the location in which that investment will be best exploited .
20 We wish to expand our membership because we believe that birds are everyone 's concern .
21 First , because we wish to find out about children as such ; second , because we believe that events early in life play an important part in shaping adult personality .
22 Whether we believe that inequality of the sexes is the result of genetic differences , the desire of men to control and dominate women , outdated attitudes and prejudices or historical struggle , it is undoubtedly the case that there is a continuous process of producing and reproducing inequality .
23 We might even accept the regress caused by the suggestion that when we believe that p we believe that p is probable ( the regress comes by taking q = ‘ p is probable ’ ) .
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