Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] believe that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 2 | The Royal Commission did not believe that the existing local authorities were in a position to meet the challenges they had identified . |
| 3 | C. Wright Mills saw professionals as increasingly becoming the servants of the rich and powerful , but he did not believe that the individual professionals themselves were losing their power and influence . |
| 4 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . " |
| 5 | If war broke out he did not believe that the Soviet Union would mount a localised attack on Japan . |
| 6 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |
| 7 | Tal Goff L.J. , while accepting that the distinction between jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional error of law was obsolete , did not believe that the Anisminic principle should apply ‘ with full force ’ to every inferior court , and emphasised that the reviewing court should not intervene ‘ merely because some error of law has been committed during an inquest . ’ |
| 8 | She did not believe that the wicked could be caught by ten-year-old children and returned to the police station in exchange for a pony , any more than she believed that constant hot water would make young mothers smile constantly with relief and proud love . |
| 9 | But overall , NACAB did not believe that the initial resources proposed for the task were sufficient and considerable negotiations would be necessary before the CAB would accept the task . |
| 10 | In this Marx was similar to many of his contemporaries , such as Spencer or Comte , but he was also very different from them , for he did not believe that the same laws apply to biological evolution as apply to human societies . |
| 11 | As I have said before , I do not believe that a Labour Government would have embarked on any of this . |
| 12 | The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable . |
| 13 | I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants . |
| 14 | I do not believe that a Conservative government would have aroused hostility at that pitch , but the difference between a Tory government and a Labour government was that the latter threatened , or was thought to threaten , the money and positions of the rich — a threat which moved the rich to unreasoning hostility . |
| 15 | To put this differently and more technically , I do not believe that the causal nexus of history , or that of nature , could be broken . |
| 16 | I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken . |
| 17 | Do not denigrate our streets as terrible after just one day in Birmingham ; do not believe that the only person you will find reading a book will be a ‘ broken winged angel ’ guarding a tomb in the city centre ! |
| 18 | On the general point , I do not believe that the substantial improvement in productivity has arisen through a reduction in the number of disabled people in the mines . |
| 19 | I do not believe that the genuine asylum seeker will be treated fairly . |
| 20 | I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police . |
| 21 | I do not believe that the current management at British Rail is capable of building the project , although I believe that it needs building . |
| 22 | We do not believe that the mental element can be substantiated by simply showing an intent to apply force and no more . " |
| 23 | We do not believe that the anti-neutrophil antibody in PSC is similar to that found in Wegener 's granulomatosis for three reasons . |
| 24 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 25 | I equally do not believe that the All England Club is going to sign a contract to create a completely new club in Basingstoke tomorrow morning . |
| 26 | We do not believe that the orthodox account provides a satisfactory explanation of the crisis , for reasons we shall be giving shortly . |
| 27 | The size of the problem is comparable , but I do not believe that the post-war reconstruction programme in Europe is a good model for what is required in the Commonwealth of Independent States . |
| 28 | My colleagues and I do not believe that the British people will be fooled a second time — one can take a horse to water but one can not make it drink . |
| 29 | I do not believe that the British public are prepared to move to a property tax . |
| 30 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |