Example sentences of "to believe [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 2 | But I really to believe that Halloween does has no real influence . |
| 3 | Am I supposed to believe that story ? ’ |
| 4 | Indeed there is every reason to believe that society in general would benefit from it . |
| 5 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 6 | ‘ Publicity has led to young people to believe that drug taking is about heroin and crack and has failed to cover the dangers of other less notorious drugs , ’ said Mr McMullin . |
| 7 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 8 | Some people in the Labour Party seem to believe that Labour will be better off without the unions . |
| 9 | It would constitute a typically academic fallacy to believe that analysis on its own — the sheer power of thought — could change or reverse such a situation , but it could well affect it . |
| 10 | The Encomiast 's tale that he was born to another woman and smuggled into Ælfgifu of Northampton 's bed at least implies that he was generally recognised as son of Cnut and Ælfgifu , and Adam calls Gorm the Old Hardecnudth Vurm , which if correct makes it feasible to believe that Cnut named Swegen and Harold from his father and grandfather , and Harthacnut , evidently the third-born , after his great-grandfather . |
| 11 | Well I do n't think it 'll be a good idea at all because my no my knowledge of tin foil leads me to believe that tin foil wrapped on tin foil falls off . |
| 12 | Chandler , however , ( 1988a , p. 186 ) provides a timely reminder when he concludes that it ‘ is a frequent but pathetic fallacy in political analysis to believe that power necessarily accrues to those who habitually walk with the great ’ . |
| 13 | It is difficult knowing how far to credit such stories in twelfth-century sources , although given that the Ramsey chronicle is recording the history of its own house , and that the Peterborough source refers to trouble there at the same time , it is reasonable to believe that trouble of some sort there was . |
| 14 | It 's hard to believe another child could do such a thing . |
| 15 | He was starting to believe this stuff . |
| 16 | It is easy to believe this story , and sadly expertise in such design , principles and skills , devised in our country , have been neglected here and instead developed abroad to give commercial advantage to other nations . |
| 17 | ‘ I can see nobody is going to believe this story first time , are they ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 's supposed to believe this fairy story ? ’ |
| 19 | each potential investor who accepts the invitation should warrant that he/she is acquiring the shares for his/her own account for long term investment and notwithstanding this warranty it must be reasonable for the issuing company in all the circumstances to believe this warranty ; |
| 20 | ‘ I would like to believe this number , ’ says Stirling , ‘ but it really needs an independent check . ’ |
| 21 | No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to believe this sob story ! ’ |
| 23 | Few were inclined to believe this version , a scepticism reinforced over the years by countless reports , some highly credible , of sightings of the Swede , in prisons , mental homes and labour camps . |
| 24 | The world is determined to believe benighted rubbish : he is determined to save it from itself . |
| 25 | He said many schools in the Seventies seemed to believe good spelling could be picked up , not taught . |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't want to believe all grandfather says , he 's getting old . |
| 27 | Given Labour 's espousal of the goal of a united Ireland , albeit by the consent of the people , it is hard to believe any accommodation could be reached with the Ulster Unionists . |
| 28 | Refuse to believe any opinion about yourself EXCEPT God 's opinion — that as a human being you are valuable , successful and useful . |
| 29 | ‘ Domestic Happiness is the greatest of things sublunary , ’ he had written to Southey earlier in August , ‘ and of things celestial it is perhaps impossible for unassisted Man to believe any thing greater . ’ |