Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] believe that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great receptivity to the Good News in the United Kingdom today encourages me to believe that a harvest is prepared and yet few bold , denominational plans exist for evangelism and growth . |
| 2 | Well if I could refer you , ma'am , to my paragraph three point seven of my supplementary statement , erm I do indicate there erm that the factors which make me believe that a location in this sector or these three sectors erm is a better one in far , as far as employment is concerned . |
| 3 | And you really expect me to believe that the return of the cheque was your idea ? |
| 4 | You expect me to believe that the board just chose me at random ? |
| 5 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 6 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 7 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 8 | However , there is enough solid evidence to lead us to believe that the stories which gave inspiration to medieval balladeers and to Wagner in his sensuous love music , ( including his well-known Liebestod ) , were based on events of long ago beside the now peaceful Fowey River . |
| 9 | The catastrophists ' notion of mass extinction allowed them to believe that the disappearance of species was not a part of Nature 's regular operations , but occurred only in those exceptional interludes when the earth 's normal stability was interrupted by some gigantic convulsion . |
| 10 | This leads me to believe that the encyclopaedia is comprehensive , although it may be more accessible to readers who have some minimal knowledge of the area they are investigating . |
| 11 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 12 | Where they were wrong was in leading you to believe that the package they were selling you represented good value for money . |
| 13 | Much of what we have just talked about may seem far beyond our reach or experience yet , but it comforts us to believe that no exigency of life can ever rob the believer of accepting its transcendence as well as its immanence . |
| 14 | Such meteorites give us few clues as to the prevalence of life on other worlds ; however , members of a different class of meteorites — the carbonaceous chondritescontain organic chemicals , leading us to believe that the building blocks of life must be fairly commonplace . |
| 15 | He is leading us to believe that the information will never be provided . |
| 16 | We are more likely to operate with a rather loose form of inferencing which leads us to believe that the hats and coats mentioned in ( 8 ) belong to visitors to the house which has the dresser in its kitchen . |
| 17 | Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 18 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 19 | The popular press would have us believe that the whole of Parliament exchange bodily fluids and God knows what else at these sex fiestas . |
| 20 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 21 | His experience as president of the Scottish Institute had led him to believe that the way forward lay in joining forces with the English and Welsh in a single British Institute of Chartered Accountants , and in 1989 , he spearheaded the Scottish side of the campaign . |
| 22 | Nearly every member of the aesthetic Mafia ( numbering no more than five people in the room and two phone bidders ) who saw it believed that the table was the work of the important Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst ( 1826–1910 ) . |
| 23 | To give the farcical complications a kick-start , Poiret asks us to believe that a man , finding himself in this predicament , would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage , and that the girl , required to account for her surprise visit , would blurt out that she was pregnant . |
| 24 | I think I believe that every particle of ourselves , whether combined with those of others in normal electrovalence to make up this or that slice of us , or whether bombarded by those of others until this or that human element mutates into some other , every particle of ourselves returns . |
| 25 | Neither do I believe that a painter could have painted it — had he seen what I saw . |
| 26 | Nor do I believe that the zeal of discovery is a cause for shame . |
| 27 | Nor do I believe that the conclusion to be drawn from all this is that life is a miserable business . |
| 28 | ‘ Why do you believe that a computer system is inappropriate for your business ? ’ |
| 29 | For what reason do you believe that a relaxation , as you put it , of the greenbelt boundary from the deposit copy to the line you now propose , north of this important village , would not do so ? |
| 30 | If you want a nuclear-free world , do you believe that the world 's political leaders are crazy warmongers , or that humanity is out to destroy itself , or that the world is a dangerous and evil place ? |