Example sentences of "they believe [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 2 | They felt that it was partly their responsibility to bring up their children in an atmosphere of knowledge and understanding of protestants , as they believed part of the difficulties of life in Ulster were caused by this lack of contact . |
| 3 | Verse 12 says : ‘ They believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ [ and ] they were baptised . ’ |
| 4 | Let me read a few verses , reading first of all from verse twelve it says , that when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ , they were baptized men and women alike . |
| 5 | The early Church used miracles to teach who they believed Jesus was : the Messiah . |
| 6 | However , well-informed sources ruled out both British Aerospace and STC as buyers , saying they believed Hoare Govett was acting on behalf of normal investment clients or Middle Eastern investors with an interest in Ferranti 's future . |
| 7 | They were both speaking in the slightly lowered tone that meant they did not want to be overheard , and were only having the discussion at all because they believed Belinda to be safely out of earshot . |
| 8 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 9 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 10 | They believed success could win over the students and other intellectuals . |
| 11 | ‘ Our sources always reported that they believed Bormann had come here . |
| 12 | But in a recent annual survey of 150 top UK advertisers , conducted by sponsorship consultants Granard Rowland , part of Saatchis , 50 per cent of marketing directors said they believed sponsors should influence programme content . |
| 13 | The three strangers claimed , inter alia , that they believed Mrs. Morgan was consenting . |
| 14 | The reason is clear — they believed property was the best investment to meet their rapidly inflating liabilities — and that was even in the dark days of 1975 . |
| 15 | Perhaps they believed Iona was a shortcut to Heaven ? |
| 16 | In addition there was the fear of puppet rulers — as they believed Ho Chi Minh to be . |
| 17 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 18 | On marketing , while branch managers said they believed interest rates were the biggest attraction to new customers , for the customers the key was close proximity to a branch . |
| 19 | They are passed on to other specialist Hospitals , and in this case the Southampton General where they believed surgeons would n't accept smokers … |
| 20 | Last autumn , we invited readers to contribute essays on how they believed information technology would change life in Britain . |
| 21 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 22 | They believe Britain should pull out of the project and find another weapon to fill the same role . |
| 23 | ‘ They believe girls should not speak up and that they should let their parents control their lives . |
| 24 | Banks offer such goodies , not because students are rich and represent good business to the banks , not colleagues , because out of the goodness of their hearts they believe students need a helping hand . |
| 25 | This is in spite of the scientific advisory committee of its own research foundation having made a unanimous public statement that they believe smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases . |
| 26 | They believe moves to tighten the gun laws even further could result in even more firearms flooding the black market . |
| 27 | They believe Flashman wants to destroy everything Fry has achieved , and they even suspected his sacking after a Flashman interview on Barnet 's Clubcall service last week . |
| 28 | If a Black woman is on a visit , they tend to search her more , watch her more , because they believe Blacks are too bad . |
| 29 | They believe music causes less offence to the listener than direct speech . |
| 30 | Police have discovered the body of a pensioner who they believe fell from his dinghy while fishing on the River Wye . |