Example sentences of "[verb] believe in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it all has to do with being unworldly and prepared to believe in the little people at the end of the garden . |
| 2 | Or that one is to continue to believe in the biblical God despite all experiences to the contrary , that is to say believe that God is bound up with a religion and a community in which women are counted inferior ( in which case one is attempting to believe in an evil God ) ? |
| 3 | While continuing to believe in the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine at communion , Luther rejected transubstantiation for a position which has been labelled consubstantiation . |
| 4 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 5 | Such things might influence the judges of my own country , where people still pretend to believe in the essential niceness of the human race — or at least pretend to pretend . |
| 6 | Irrespective of personal belief or disbelief , an unaccountable number of people have believed and do believe in the spiritual aspects of human life , and therefore their actions , attitudes and interpretations of events have been influenced accordingly . |
| 7 | Justinian did believe in the direct enforcement of modus . |
| 8 | It is only when one supposes that , as well as such ideas , there is either ‘ extension in abstract ’ or extended , external , material things which might have parts we can not perceive , that one might come to believe in the infinite divisibility of finite extension . |
| 9 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |