Example sentences of "[pron] believes [conj] the [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 | Stanislav is a difficult old man who believes that the current year is 2464 , a half-century or so in the past . |
| 5 | Penn 's role was that of a rookie cop who believes that the only way to fight violence is with violence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first was proposed by Smalley , who believes that the spherical molecule is produced by the growth of open sheets of pentagons and hexagons . |
| 8 | She believes that the powerful can , like latter-day Frankensteins , turn the boy or girl next door into the instrument of an evil state . |
| 9 | It would appear from her article that she believes that the unschooled Wolof have not passed through this stage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has made it quite clear that it believes that the existing legislation can deal with such matters . |
| 14 | It believes that the new LightsOut software is the first unattended event monitoring program from a supplier of Unix-based fault-tolerant computers . |
| 15 | It believes that the economic evidence on the significance of sick building syndrome is of the greatest importance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He believes that the financial support companies give to charitable works can , and should , be quantified . |
| 18 | He believes that the radical opposition 's shrillness is merely an effort ‘ to ring bells to attract attention . ’ |
| 19 | He believes that the subtle discrimination practised on him resulted from his active role in a North sea safety committee . |
| 20 | He believes that the new sponsorship from UV Ski will make a big difference . |
| 21 | He believes that the mere learning of Sanskrit by large numbers of people in itself would represent a quantum leap in consciousness . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He believes that the medical profession is encouraging Down 's babies to die at birth because of ignorance and fear . |