Example sentences of "[adv] believe that [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At twenty he is still young and foolish enough to believe that all women are goddesses under the skin . |
| 2 | But I do not believe that financial rewards are themselves enough or are important except in the Herzberg terms . |
| 3 | I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it . |
| 5 | As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ . |
| 6 | on many occasions to the excellent work done by and the section eleven team , but we do not believe that any area is entitled to automatic exemption . |
| 7 | However , while ‘ [ t ] he Administration does not believe that any city is condemned to inevitable decline ’ ( US Department of Housing and Urban Development 1984 , p27 ) , the emphasis on comparative advantage and entrepreneurialism carried an inevitable warning . |
| 8 | I do not believe that these anomalies are sufficiently important to justify further organisational tinkering , to the detriment of the APB 's ability to get on with its work . |
| 9 | As it will have become clear , I do not believe that this vehicle is tenable . |
| 10 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 11 | Environmentalists do not believe that this phase-out is fast enough . |
| 12 | For those whose overheads are modest ( and for those who add an extra sum for secretarial , postage , or other expenses ) , I do not believe that either rate is sustainable in terms of a client 's ability to afford it or the likelihood of its recovery by the successful litigant at the conclusion of a case . |
| 13 | Reasonable women , of course , do not believe that sexual intercourse is a cure for fits or a treatment for breathing which will improve the voice . |
| 14 | The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) . |
| 15 | While he could understand the ‘ natural anger and grief ’ of the child 's parents , he did not believe that medical negligence was a factor in Stephen 's death . |
| 16 | If they rank the checkerboard solution last in other circumstances , in the case of strict liability for manufacturers , for example , they nevertheless believe that internal compromise is wrong , though for reasons that yield when the substantive issue is very grave . |
| 17 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 18 | But while we know this , we must still believe that objective truth is obtainable ; or we must believe that it is 99 per cent obtainable ; or if we ca n't believe this we must believe that 43 per cent objective truth is better than 41 per cent . |
| 19 | Many people still believe that English grammar is a fixed form , stable and unchanging , which obeys logical rules . |
| 20 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 21 | The Government still believes that nuclear power is the energy of the future that will keep the lights shining brightly and at low cost . |
| 22 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 23 | We also believe that bad debts are a major issue for those leasing to the small and medium-sized customers . ’ |
| 24 | Suppose we honestly believe that some treatment is unlikely to bring us a benefit that makes worthwhile the pain or distress involved , we have every right to refuse it . |
| 25 | He clearly believes that one-day cricket is essentially junk cricket , and who could honestly disagree with him ? |
| 26 | Detectives now believe that 25-year-old Stephanie was held in a large workshop or warehouse type building . |
| 27 | It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt . |
| 28 | It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks . |
| 29 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 30 | ‘ We do n't believe that these adverts are specific enough to do more than stimulate people 's interest in our general services , ’ said . |