Example sentences of "to believe that [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 . |