Example sentences of "[pron] believes that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an important strand in English thought , which is traceable to Hobbes 's idea of civitas , and which believes that the only way to preserve society is by acknowledging a perpetual sovereign power . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister , who himself believes that the moral lead should be given by the church , would happily subscribe to these ambitions for British society . |
| 3 | Winterbottom himself believes that the ideal make-up of a flanker has changed in his time . |
| 4 | Secondly , anyone who believes that a 60-mm refractor will bear a power of × 300 is going to be bitterly disappointed . |
| 5 | Stanislav is a difficult old man who believes that the current year is 2464 , a half-century or so in the past . |
| 6 | Penn 's role was that of a rookie cop who believes that the only way to fight violence is with violence . |
| 7 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |
| 8 | The first was proposed by Smalley , who believes that the spherical molecule is produced by the growth of open sheets of pentagons and hexagons . |
| 9 | She believes that the powerful can , like latter-day Frankensteins , turn the boy or girl next door into the instrument of an evil state . |
| 10 | It would appear from her article that she believes that the unschooled Wolof have not passed through this stage . |
| 11 | She believes that the sudden growth in women 's writing and the interest in issues relating to women was largely owing to the rise of the companionate marriage . |
| 12 | Like most women who have worked in it , she is critical of the grant-aided sector but despite the failures , she believes that the original aims were worthwhile . |
| 13 | If one believes that the total density of the Universe must be very close to the critical value , this implies that the baryon fraction in compact groups is representative of the mean cosmological value . |
| 14 | It believes that a region-wide authority is required to provide enough spending power for the benefit of the entire area . |
| 15 | It has made it quite clear that it believes that the existing legislation can deal with such matters . |
| 16 | It believes that the new LightsOut software is the first unattended event monitoring program from a supplier of Unix-based fault-tolerant computers . |
| 17 | It believes that the economic evidence on the significance of sick building syndrome is of the greatest importance . |
| 18 | It believes that the mere fact of travelling to North Korea without evidence either of espionage activities or of the use or advocacy of violence does not justify imprisonment . |
| 19 | if he believes that a criminal offence has been committed and he believes that the officer ought to be charged . |
| 20 | He believes that a high viewpoint ‘ … creates a space between the landscape and the observer , similar in its effect to the space between a picture and whoever is looking at it . ’ |
| 21 | He believes that an increasing number of vehicle and equipment makers who currently build their own engines will be forced to buy at least some of what they need from independents like Perkins . |
| 22 | He believes that the financial support companies give to charitable works can , and should , be quantified . |
| 23 | He believes that the radical opposition 's shrillness is merely an effort ‘ to ring bells to attract attention . ’ |
| 24 | He believes that the subtle discrimination practised on him resulted from his active role in a North sea safety committee . |
| 25 | He believes that the new sponsorship from UV Ski will make a big difference . |
| 26 | He believes that the mere learning of Sanskrit by large numbers of people in itself would represent a quantum leap in consciousness . |
| 27 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 28 | He believes that the direct exploitation of natural forest , as is occurring in many tropical regions , is equivalent to ‘ hunting-gathering ’ while the managed natural forests of North America , for example , have reached the ‘ farming ’ stage . |
| 29 | Apart from the Head Chef , who is 53 , opposition has come mainly from the Accommodation Manager , who is unqualified but very experienced : he believes that the old ways are the best ways and has generally received the support of his department heads , who owe their positions to him . |
| 30 | He believes that the definitive Vietnam movie has not yet been made , and will not be made until relations between the US and Vietnam are normalised . |