Example sentences of "believe such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Glover , in one of her few interventions , said warmly that she believed such things could and did happen . |
| 2 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 3 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 4 | I believe he continued to treat her long after he needed to , that he misled her into believing such treatment was necessary and that he faked his file notes accordingly . ’ |
| 5 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |
| 6 | I did n't believe such happiness was possible and I was ready to make any sacrifice for him . |
| 7 | ‘ But , Father , can one believe such wickedness of any man ? |
| 8 | Richard Miles was known to smoke cannabis but police do n't believe such drug use was a motive for murder . |
| 9 | Manson was , and remains to this day , America 's number one bogeyman and is regularly pilloried and looked on in fascination by a world that still ca n't believe such things happened . |
| 10 | Who does believe such things anyway ? |
| 11 | Jezrael could hardly believe such extravagance . |
| 12 | How extraordinary that people her own age should believe such grotesque , non-scientific ideas as that a man could be resurrected from the dead after , and a horrible thought it was , after being crucified ; and how fantastic that they should believe that all the dead would rise from their graves — all of them , those countless millions , millions upon millions , rising from the clay into which they had , long since , dissolved … . |
| 13 | Did he really expect her to believe such Peter Pan Wendy nonsense . |
| 14 | If the arrivals of comets in the inner Solar System were totally haphazard we would have little reason to believe such ideas . |
| 15 | Besides — and in the way the French Army of those days functioned it is hard to believe such considerations did not pass through Joffre 's mind — if things went badly wrong henceforth at Verdun , the Generalissimo 's responsibility would now be shared by another . |
| 16 | ‘ Do the Maltese really believe such stories ? ’ |
| 17 | We do n't condone arson or violence , but many young people believe such actions are justified . |
| 18 | Until this happens we believe such areas will continue to be particularly vulnerable to this and all other types of development . |
| 19 | Mr Jackson believes such readings give a complete picture of a person 's physical constitution . |
| 20 | TIM WEBB believes such concern is misplaced if it fails to address cultural as well as environmental issues . |
| 21 | He believes such innovations as ‘ distance working ’ , which will enable people to operate from home ‘ instead of having to converge on places in order to work ’ , will offer all kinds of promise for improving some of the less agreeable aspects of a business career . |
| 22 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 23 | Mr Round believes such children should be expelled , and kept out of main-stream education for good . |
| 24 | Todd believes such levels of expenditure were necessary last year ‘ to maintain our growth momentum and achieve the successful integration of ICL and Nokia Data product ranges ’ . |
| 25 | She has never hired anyone with a business-school education , because she believes such people are too rigid in their outlook . |