Example sentences of "[noun] believe that [adj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions . |
| 2 | Whereas Herodotus transformed ‘ history ’ ( historia ) from a general enquiry about the world into an enquiry about past events , Thucydides believed that serious history could be concerned only with the present , or the immediate past . |
| 3 | But ministeres believe that custodial sentences would not provide a simple answer . |
| 4 | The Institute believes that sole practice should continue to be permitted , but with extra safeguards . |
| 5 | Consequently the committee believes that non-executive directors will not be perceived by the public as being independent of the executive directors , hence the need for the audit review panel . ’ |
| 6 | Not least was the announcement that Fiat will build a car plant in the Soviet Union , a move described candidly by one Fiat official in the Guardian : ‘ Fiat believes that Eastern Europe will become the new Korea of the motor industry , except this time cheap production will be available on our doorstep , ’ he said . |
| 7 | A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders . |
| 8 | Mindful of recent events in Dakar , these officials believed that Allied interests would best be served by maintaining a working relationship with Vichy administrators . |
| 9 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 10 | The regulations recently produced were indeed unhelpful when attempting to contain disturbed young people , but it is again another example of a ‘ knee-jerk ’ reaction to believe that tighter guidelines will cure the problem . |
| 11 | Many observers believe that this outcome would not have happened if BA had not been privatised as such a dominant carrier in the UK , but others argue that this claim is irrelevant and that world competition is what matters ; BA and BCal were both relatively small on the world stage , but might have been able to compete effectively in a merged form . |
| 12 | Mr McKiernan believes that this service will have an even more important role to play in the financial services sector in the future . |
| 13 | Unlike Eisenhower ( who had argued in 1959 , that if the Soviets really intended to make trouble they could be deterred only with the threat of nuclear war ) , Kennedy believed that Western diplomacy should be backed up by increased conventional forces on the continent . |
| 14 | For instance , does Professor Lee believe that professional accountants should not also be commercial ? |
| 15 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |
| 16 | An announcement that a firm is increasing its dividends is a good signal because it suggests that the managers believe that future earnings will be sufficient to sustain the higher level of dividends . |
| 17 | It would be a contradictory state of affairs to believe that higher education could maintain one kind of culture within itself and could underpin a quite different kind of culture within society at large : there could not be any fundamental incongruity between these two cultural functions of higher education . |
| 18 | Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early . |
| 19 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |
| 20 | It requires a lot of faith to believe that such questioning will actually be recognized , liked and rewarded . |
| 21 | Unfortunately some regulatory authorities believe that smaller dosages will increase the possibility of selecting for resistant pests ; the idea is that whereas large doses should kill everything stone dead , small doses allow marginally resistant individuals to survive and breed . |
| 22 | The deists and Christian rationalists of the Enlightenment believed that rational argument could demonstrate the existence of God , just as Descartes had maintained before them . |
| 23 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 24 | User expectations are often unreasonably high ; use of administrative computing systems encourages bureaucrats to believe that environmental data can just as readily be analysed and used to support decisions . |
| 25 | In addition , the government believed that local taxation should reflect the role of local authorities as service providers . |
| 26 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 27 | The Soviets believed that similar principles might be possible in a German peace treaty . |
| 28 | The attempt was inspired by the work of the Logical Positivists in the 1930s , notably Rudolph Carnap , Carl Hempel , and Ernest Nagel , and prompted very many social scientists to believe that scientific method could be boldly distilled in diagrams like Figure 3.1 . |
| 29 | Age Concern believes that convalescent facilities must be available to all elderly patients who require them . |
| 30 | Age Concern believes that these issues should be explicitly considered when discussions take place about responsibilities of health authorities , family practitioner committees and self-governing hospitals . |