Example sentences of "[pron] believe that [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 2 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 3 | I believe that one firm is at present training one male monotype operator , who is being taught by a woman , It is true that this evidence comes from the opposing side so to speak , but nowhere is a counter-assertion put forward by the union that men had applied to learn and been turned away . |
| 4 | It is not practical for her to travel to Alton for the hearing of her case , and I believe that genuine hardship is going to result . ’ |
| 5 | I believe that each individual is precious to God . ’ |
| 6 | I support the Bill because it seeks to address a serious problem , but I believe that that problem is greater than it appears to be . |
| 7 | The educational establishment likes to keep up an old-fashioned mystique on such matters , and I believe that that establishment is one of the problems we face . |
| 8 | I believe that real democracy is allowing voters to decide in a general election and not in a referendum , which is a totally different thing , and one that is alien to my concept of democracy . |
| 9 | I believe that philosophical inquiry is , by its very nature , open and untechnical . |
| 10 | I believe that monetary union is political union , and that the creation of a single currency is federalism . |
| 11 | I believe that local democracy was not very responsibly exercised by some people in the years that have just gone by . ’ |
| 12 | However , I believe that particular gamble is often lost by negative press coverage . |
| 13 | Why should I accept even the very small risk of living near a dump site for nuclear waste when I believe that nuclear power is costly , dangerous and unneeded ? |
| 14 | I believe that this view is explicitly a rejection of the importance of the Biblical revelation . |
| 15 | I believe that this view is too strong , that , although porn does reinforce certain attitudes towards women , in the main , it is rather a symptom , and not a major part of the cause , of power relations that exist outside the pages of Penthouse , Playboy , etc. , and outside the cinemas in Soho or Amsterdam ( see Moye , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | I believe that steady progress is being made , as my hon. Friend says . |
| 17 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 18 | They say that social workers who attend seminars and lectures on the subject do not realise that these ideas are being promoted by Christian Fundamentalist extremists who believe that all abuse is demonic in origin . |
| 19 | Some of the notable protagonists in the debate are John and Nuala Scarisbrook , of the ‘ Life ’ organisation , who believe that all abortion is wrong because life begins at conception . |
| 20 | The guillotine motion after 10 o'clock tonight will attempt to preclude sensible contributions , attempt to preclude people from dealing with the difficulties and technicalities in the Bill , and pose a real problem for those of us who believe that local government is not a political football to be kicked about at whim , but an essential part of our democracy for the provision of essential services . |
| 21 | Transformation is preferred over transaction by those who believe that participative decision-making is crucial , but most managers — and the Earley and Fletcher-Campbell study underlines this — prefer to operate in both styles according to the nature of the task and the attitudes of those with whom they work . |
| 22 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 23 | We believe that political power is best exercised at the most local level possible , consistent with good government . |
| 24 | We believe that each individual is both unique and equal to others regardless of sex , nationality , colour , creed , class , intellectual ability or emotional , social , physical handicap . |
| 25 | We have introduced savings schemes such as TESSAs , and we believe that excess taxation is iniquitous when we seek to encourage people both to save and to invest in our economy . |
| 26 | We believe that British advertising is in a class of its own for inventiveness , elegance and sophistication . |
| 27 | We believe that this weakness is one of the reasons which explains the failure of left parties and the trade unions to develop coherent socialist housing policies . |
| 28 | For instance to this is an assumption that although we are going to have a shortfall on the collection fund , again because of good housekeeping we believe that this action is what people want by the charge payers of the city and again that in this financial year it can be taken out of the . |
| 29 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 30 | They believed that mental illness was substantially underfunded in their region . |