Example sentences of "believe [conj] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps such cases do not occur with the frequency one may so readily believe or that such cases do not get reported in the national press with the frequency that one might have expected ; or alternatively , perhaps the police are much more successful in capturing the so-called sex maniacs than we sometimes are led to imagine .
2 Does Mr Baker really believe that such dishonesty and repression provide a ‘ strong family background ’ ?
3 Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election .
4 Dewey saw that there was a potential conflict between the ideal of education as an instrument and that of education as self-development , but he could not believe that such equally desirable ideals could ultimately be in contradiction one to the other .
5 One might believe that such matters were outside the review 's purview .
6 Do we really believe that such an instinct is to be found encoded only into molecular and electromagnetic patterns within the brain ?
7 We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations .
8 As with the comments of Heald , Shawcross and others after my documentary on the police , I do not believe that such an interview would attract that sort of attention today .
9 Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased .
10 I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor .
11 No limitations were written into the English and Welsh legislation , and I do not believe that such a limitation is appropriate in this case .
12 Carrington did not believe that such a thing could happen , or would .
13 I do not believe that such a case will ever be found .
14 ( And no-one should believe that such sums as these would apply only to obscure text books ; even the basic paperback novel could be thus affected . )
15 I can well believe that many Labour supporters changed their minds on polling day after being terrified by newspaper ads warning how much extra tax they would pay under Kinnock ?
16 I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim .
17 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 … .
18 They would believe that all these people were caught up in this satanic net .
19 It does not believe that all parents have been informed of their rights under the Act and it is critical of the lack of training for parent governors .
20 Although Robinson 's suggestions are attractive , Steers ( 1964 ) does not believe that all double spits can be explained as breached baymouth bars .
21 She still could n't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her .
22 Although I know that he does , I do not believe that all parts of the House do share that view .
23 Only a Government as dogmatically fixated as this one would believe that all one needs to do is introduce a market or privatise sections of service and all will be well .
24 Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on .
25 I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time .
26 I ca n't believe that that young seaman , Achmed or whatever his name is , or either of the two girls can have anything to do with this .
27 I just ca n't believe that that just things that are ha , going to be happening
28 Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 .
29 I do n't actually believe that that depression is normal , I believe that we can overcome depression , and I think there is some creative things that we can do out of a depression people can become stronger , they can tap into their resources inside with support and help , so I can believe it 's a positive experience .
30 Bertha Cohen wished she could believe that that was the explanation , but in her heart she knew it was n't .
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