Example sentences of "believe [that] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that hundreds of the " veiled women " demonstrating in the streets of Teheran in favour of an Islam Republic were actually militant Communists dressed up . |
| 2 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 3 | Reformers believed that one way of preventing these marriages was to provide clubs with attractive and organized recreational facilities in the hope that ‘ the girl who has her clubs will not need the idle companionship of lads ’ . |
| 4 | Franco believed that one of General Primo de Rivera 's mistakes had been to establish the provisional nature of his regime at the outset . |
| 5 | Laub ; they believed that six had been hit in all from an estimated fifteen . |
| 6 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 7 | The University had filed for patents , believing that millions of dollars could accrue if test-tube fusion were commercially practical , and the patent lawyers were concerned about what would happen if other groups found out the results and duplicated them . |
| 8 | Recognising that man can not escape , it leaves him to cope with the paradox and frustration , content to walk by faith , not by sight , believing that one day all things will become new and be reconciled in Christ . |
| 9 | And I do not believe that 24.3 million dollars a year is the average reward for selling coconut milk and conch shells to honky tourists . |
| 10 | But I do believe that one act of violence seeds another . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know if anyone saw Football focus on Grandstand but I could n't believe that two loonies had tipped Sheff Wed over Leeds to win the Championship . |
| 12 | Then she said , ‘ I can scarcely believe that two young people so obviously in love with each other could be so utterly foolish . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’ |
| 14 | If only you could believe that I But you ca n't . |
| 15 | But while we know this , we must still believe that objective truth is obtainable ; or we must believe that it is 99 per cent obtainable ; or if we ca n't believe this we must believe that 43 per cent objective truth is better than 41 per cent . |
| 16 | They have found it hard to believe that 100 shares bought in 1973 for £145 are now worth nearly £7,900 . |
| 17 | I could understand one man imagining that he saw a person in the immediate area of the box but it is hard to believe that two level-headed signalmen could have been mistaken enough to be confused by the same phenomenon . |
| 18 | It was not an act of war and I have no reason to believe that one of your countrymen was responsible . |
| 19 | Watching Laura , it is hard to believe that one year ago this chubby child from Manchester with the tangle of blonde curls was a jaundiced , wasted waif , waiting to die . |
| 20 | ‘ You encourage your readers to believe that one day their prince will come . ’ |
| 21 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 22 | It is hard to believe that one architect created all three : the dour , round-arched entrance front , the blandly conventional west front and the garden front serenely composed about its canted bay with female heads , heraldic complexities and subtle drapes of rustication . |
| 23 | It is difficult to believe that fifteen to twenty years ago the majority of people in this country did not have a bank Current Account . |
| 24 | But it is hard to believe that three such bumblers could ever have got the paper off the ground . |
| 25 | Perhaps this is considered too expensive , but it is hard to believe that 240 doctors can be trained at no capital cost , even if there is head space at medical schools . |
| 26 | Playing in a park in Northampton this afternoon , it 's hard to believe that 6 year old Natalie Hill is desperately sick . |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend accept that , if British Rail has decided that only 13 of those crossings are unsafe , it therefore appears to believe that 87 are perfectly safe ? |
| 28 | Mary has suffered notoriously bad luck in the past but I strongly believe that 1992 will be her year . |
| 29 | This is because I believe that one of the basic assumptions of functionalism can be successfully illustrated , and alternatives to functionalism can be successfully confronted , by a careful examination of the effects of brain injury on face processing tasks . |
| 30 | I believe that one day Manchester United will again win the league title . |