Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people mistakenly believe that ceiling joists can be turned into floor joists , simply by nailing other joists on top to double the depth . |
| 2 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 3 | Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate . |
| 4 | Many people still believe that Travis was right and ‘ There Was A Light ’ would have lodged in the top three . |
| 5 | Many people wrongly believed that setaside land would soon bloom with wildflowers like this ancient Cotswold grazing meadow , which is now a nature reserve . |
| 6 | Chinese alchemists also believed that longevity could be encouraged by eating jade . |
| 7 | But if 60 per cent of Conservative members really believe that standards may suffer , the remedy 's in their hands : they must use their corporate power to change the Bill for the better . |
| 8 | That same society once believed that science would overcome all its problems . |
| 9 | Common report now believes that Alexander III , King of Scotland , accidentally fell to his death from Kinghorn Ness on 18th March 1286 . |
| 10 | Now I doubt if any modern scientist really believes that mind " and " matter " are distinguishable in this simple dualistic way ; it is simply that the experimental research worker , in his laboratory , is bound , by the context of his work , to act as if he believed it . |
| 11 | Most Christians today believe that Jesus feeds ' his people in the Eucharistic celebration ( The feeding of the 5000 ) . |
| 12 | The Code allows it , where the suspect consents , or where a senior officer reasonably believes that delaying interrogation will involve an immediate risk of harm to persons or serious loss of , or damage to , property ’ or ‘ cause unreasonable delay to the processes of investigation ’ . |