Example sentences of "[noun] believe [conj] [adj] [noun] would " in BNC.

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1 But ministeres believe that custodial sentences would not provide a simple answer .
2 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 .
3 Mindful of recent events in Dakar , these officials believed that Allied interests would best be served by maintaining a working relationship with Vichy administrators .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early .
7 Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership .
8 No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’
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