Example sentences of "believe [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believe regional government is the best way to get power down to the people . ’ |
| 2 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 3 | We will encourage home ownership , but we recognise that the housing market has been distorted by mortgage tax relief , and we believe that choice in housing means providing more rented accommodation in both public and private sectors . |
| 4 | It need not be if the authorities do not acknowledge a responsibility for control of inflation or if they believe that exchange rates ( just like changes in wage rates , or indirect taxes ) do not influence inflation but rather have their effect on relative prices . |
| 5 | I believe that nationalization has become a dirty word in this country over many a year . |
| 6 | Clothing designers from the ‘ cutting edge ’ of their profession believe that slavery to fashion will all but disappear in the Nineties . |
| 7 | I believe that spending money on continuing to dump our rubbish into holes in the ground is an act of gross irresponsibility and shows just how green the Labour Party really are . |
| 8 | I believe that spending money on continuing to dump our rubbish into holes in the ground is an act of gross irresponsibility and shows just how green the Labour Party really Coun Garry Huntington , Lib/Dem District Councillor , . |
| 9 | As I have told the hon. Gentleman on previous occasions , I believe that union in the United Kingdom and the present system of government serve us extremely well . |
| 10 | But , more important , I believe that celebration of the other and devaluing of the self is one of the oldest , as it is one of the permanent ways by which human beings express love or admiration for each other . |
| 11 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |
| 12 | Marxists after all believe that morality , in the sense of rules governing personal interactions , is the product of scarcity , a constraint which will not be necessary under communism ; and the Marxist theory of ideology devalues ethics , and suggests that ethical arguments are rationalizations of class interests . |
| 13 | ‘ We believe that truthfulness , participation , accountability and freedom of choice in its broadest sense , are some of the ethics of democracy and are at the same time biblical values . |
| 14 | I believe that insurance is an honest attempt to provide financial security and independence when you need it most . |
| 15 | I believe that part of our responsibility in A&R is to introduce new artists and sounds to the market place . |
| 16 | We believe that prevention is better than losing one of our senses that denies our members a major part of their quality of life . |
| 17 | And since I believe that criticism can not be a substitute for the reading of the novel , I 've been content to sketch some of the general truths which I think lie behind it , and a familiarity with which would I think help to illuminate an eventual reading of À la recherche du temps perdu . |
| 18 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 19 | Manualists , by contrast , believe that signing and fingerspelling are essential tools in the learning process and that lipreading and speech are , in any case , beyond the capacity of the majority of deaf and dumb children . |
| 20 | I believe that transport policy researcher , Stuart Cole , whom we have asked to chair the study , has been in touch with you to ask if you would be prepared to make a contribution by joining the steering group . |
| 21 | We 've demonstrated the direct link between investing in community support and reduced crime levels and we believe that programme , valued as it is in local communities , has a message larger and wider for policy makers in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | ‘ You talk as if you believe that rubbish ! ’ said Maisie . |
| 23 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |
| 24 | Epidemiologists believe that BSE results from cattle food infected with the agent which causes scrapie , a disease of sheep very similar to BSE . |
| 25 | Yet a number of head teachers believe that reluctance on the part of some LEAs at present to prosecute parents for the poor school attendance of their children is contributing significantly to high levels of truancy . |
| 26 | Some researchers believe that alcohol , whether consumed in the form of beer , wine or spirits , increases the level of high density lipoproteins ( HDL ) in the bloodstream , which in turn reduces the harmful cholesterol levels associated with heart disease ** . |
| 27 | He says of himself that he was , that there was a curious pleasure in making oneself believe that time and space are unreal , that matter is an illusion , and that the world really exists , consists of nothing but mind . |
| 28 | Er , a particular concern at the time of writing the report was the position concerning the long outstanding proposals to develop to redevelop the two sites in Harlow erm to date we have no information from the county , er , there was scheduled to be erm , the meeting due to take place on the twenty second of September but the county er cancelled that meeting so it 's impossible at this stage to give any further comment on that erm although I believe that matter 's being taken up . |
| 29 | In the teaching of English , then , I believe that language , the practical aspect of the subject , must have priority and must be distinguished from the theoretical or knowledge-based aspects . |
| 30 | In future I believe that planning will be worse because there 'll be no sort of overview , and that it will lead to an over provision of the profitable services and inadequate provision of services like mental illness , the elderly and those with learning difficulties . |