Example sentences of "[noun] believe that [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse .
2 In fact the US Agriculture Undersecretary believes that European sugar policies cost less-developed nations about two billion dollars a year in lost export earnings .
3 Grassmuck believes that this communication barrier between parents and children led to a series of killings of parents by their sons .
4 Resistance sources in Peshawar believe that hard-line Pushtun leader Gulbeddin Hekmatyar , who is attacking Bagram , may try to stage a coup in Kabul — something he attempted two years ago — denying the northern minorities power .
5 Hong Kong authorities believe that most boat people will acquiesce rather than violently resist attempts to send them back to Vietnam , but this apparent passivity can be deceptive .
6 However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system .
7 Both Smith and Goodman believe that skilled adult reading is far from error-free , and that errors can be a positive sign that the sense of the text has been grasped .
8 Surprisingly , the respondents believed that independent R&D efforts were the most effective means of learning about rival firms ' technology ( although licensing was also regarded as an effective learning mechanism ) .
9 SCIENTISTS believe that cancer-causing radon gas may be a health risk in 3,000 homes in Wales responsible for 110 lung cancer deaths a year .
10 The society believes that good freelance editors and proofreaders are becoming increasingly hard to find because the pool from which they are drawn — editors leaving full-time employment — is drying up as a result of a lack of inhouse training and the general reduction in numbers .
11 Weber believes that social stratification results from a struggle for scarce resources in society .
12 ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’
13 Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case .
14 The government has introduced new restrictions on the use of national park land in the event of privatisation but Opposition , and some Conservative , MPs believe that tougher planning controls are needed to enable the national park authorities to block damaging development .
15 Some people in the Labour party believe that high house prices mean high living standards and affluence .
16 After 40 years of ‘ chasing mosquitoes ’ and trying to control the malaria they transmit , an eminent entomologist believes that recent policy changes by the World Health Organisation and the intervention of environmentalists have baulked the malariologists from their ultimate goal
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