Example sentences of "believe [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 2 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 3 | The faithful went on believing despite all rational argument . |
| 4 | And yet , she believed with all her heart that there was a great deal of goodness in the boy , buried beneath the sorrow and the hurt . |
| 5 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 6 | ‘ Necromancy , ’ he said , lowering his voice , ‘ Do you know , I never believed in that hoary old tale about necromancy sucking all the goodness and all the warmth from everything , but perhaps I 've been wrong . |
| 7 | He believed in that case the main danger would come from Wollo soldiery pursuing the Shoans into the town , and passing close to the Legation . |
| 8 | To join you had to say you believed in all the usual stuff about the Working Class leading the Revolution , but a general interest in being nice to people was all that was really required . |
| 9 | ‘ If I was a person who believed in such things … ’ |
| 10 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 11 | ‘ I have decided that what I believed in most of my life was wrong , ’ says the famous Mr Winmill . |
| 12 | She believed in most of what he 'd been saying ; she had no idea of how much he believed himself |
| 13 | Jesus Christ professed , according to the writings which are still currently accepted , that he believed in this ‘ god ’ . |
| 14 | Mademoiselle was n't quite sure whether she really believed in this spider or not . |
| 15 | I would owe that to my father … to try and understand something which he believed in enough to die for ? ’ |
| 16 | Not that Henry believed in any of that rubbish about possession or reliving history or the power of the myth . |
| 17 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 18 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 19 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 20 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 21 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 22 | While fully believing in this , Marshall ( 1985 ) and Marshall and Tomkins ( 1988 ) have also explored the possibility of building a more direct link between corporate finance and strategic portfolio grids . |
| 23 | Mani attacked the church for using wine ( an invention of the devil , he thought ) , and for believing in any special significance for the sanctified bread . |
| 24 | If it really is the case that all I am doing when I have beliefs about the world is to have dispositions to behave , then it ought to make sense for me to think of my believing in those terms . |
| 25 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 26 | He believed on this sad day that feeling of reconciliation was a reason for hope . |
| 27 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 28 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 29 | I gave alms to all the blind beggars , lit candles without believing at all in their efficacy . |
| 30 | I do n't believe in that . |