Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] believe that [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Doubtless many social and economic forces have contributed to this trend ; but there is good reason to believe that our attitudes to child-rearing play a not insignificant part .
2 The Prime Minister believes that her words strike a chord with the British public .
3 The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's .
4 Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status .
5 If you have to use technical terms and you have any reason to believe that your reader may not understand them , then you should explain them .
6 Do you have any reason to believe that your horse might be the target of international intrigue ? ’
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