Example sentences of "be believe [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 2 | Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over . |
| 3 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 4 | He immediately set off and arrived that night at Lesnes Abbey in Erith , with his household , and if we are to believe that he walked the whole way , it was a goodly walk for a bishop . |
| 5 | ‘ I am to believe that they dare to send you on an assignment without discussing it with you , señorita ? |
| 6 | But if I am to believe that , when the Minister replies to the debate she will have to commit herself to two very simple propositions : first , that the Government will institute a full review of student financial support as a matter of urgency ; secondly , that they will commit themselves to restoring to all students the housing benefit and income support that the Government have taken away from them . |
| 7 | What was it for ? ’ , and within two minutes the prize-winner will be believing that she knew all about him and had indeed been specially looking forward to meeting him . |
| 8 | An extreme conservative position would be to believe that , through the fact that God chose to become incarnate within a particular society , indeed through the fact that God chose a particular tradition and people , all aspects of that society are to be conceived to accord with the will of God . |
| 9 | Hon. Members can imagine how inept the Government must be to believe that overlooking a prison yard , floodlit day and night , would be conducive to the recuperation of neurosurgical patients . |
| 10 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 11 | Joseph II will always be remembered for finding ‘ too many notes ’ in Die Entfuhrung ; and our own Queen has an almost comparable claim on immortality if the story is to be believed that when asked to attend a performance of Figaro , she replied : ‘ Is that the one about the pin ? ’ |
| 12 | He put on a brave face to Sunday Express readers : ‘ I hope it will be believed that the Arsenal can take a licking as well as any other club . |
| 13 | It could be believed that God , whatever was understood by God , was equally close to all times and places ; that no particular period , and no particular events , were to be held to be more revelatory of God than others . |
| 14 | Usually only one of the delegation addressed the assembly at large on the king 's needs , but it is hardly to be believed that the remainder were content merely to be seen . |
| 15 | Thus , if it is believed that the government is in fact the state , it may also be believed that the assumption of governmental power is equivalent to the acquisition of state power . |
| 16 | In Europe , it used to be believed that devils took up residence inside pigs by entering through a tiny hole in the forefoot . |
| 17 | A bank accountant was to be believed but not his clients or his clerks . |
| 18 | He had a deep , consciously formulated desire not to be sexual at all , but did not expect to be believed if he said so . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) The first is that orders are orders , they are things to be obeyed or not obeyed ; they are not assertions , things to be believed or not believed . |
| 20 | Strong words , to be believed and echoed through the 1950s and after by many critics at home and abroad , not least in the United States . |
| 21 | She would never be believed and he was discreet enough for all normal purposes . |
| 22 | It was an amazing thing really when I when I look back and think about the decoration side of it because , those fireplaces were had to be seen to be believed because they were , if the wind was in the wrong , you we , the room was full of smoke . |
| 23 | Even this can affect refugees adversely — their stories of torture may not be believed when they apply for asylum . |
| 24 | Such a person may be believed when he says that he has only once tasted marijuana and did not inhale . |
| 25 | It had been believed that England would be seeded to head Group F and would thus be based in Calgiari , Sardinia . |
| 26 | In Britain it has long been believed that if a black cat crosses your path or enters your house it will bring you good fortune . |
| 27 | It had long been believed that he who held the Tower , held London in the palm of his hand . |
| 28 | Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes . |
| 29 | Chris Young , Chelmsford : ‘ If you were to believe that people buy a record by The Smiths because they wish to change something , even if it is only the music industry , then you are being very naïve about things . |
| 30 | The government had to show that job substitution was not taking place , that real jobs were actually being created and that the money was additional if people were to believe that they were sincere . |