Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] believe [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires a lot of faith to believe that such questioning will actually be recognized , liked and rewarded . |
| 2 | It would be a contradictory state of affairs to believe that higher education could maintain one kind of culture within itself and could underpin a quite different kind of culture within society at large : there could not be any fundamental incongruity between these two cultural functions of higher education . |
| 3 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 4 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 5 | The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Psychiatrists believe that eugenic grounds provide the main justification for a separate offence of incest . |
| 6 | If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ? |
| 7 | A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders . |
| 8 | Resistance sources in Peshawar believe that hard-line Pushtun leader Gulbeddin Hekmatyar , who is attacking Bagram , may try to stage a coup in Kabul — something he attempted two years ago — denying the northern minorities power . |
| 9 | British diplomats in Tokyo believed that increasing signs of restlessness could be perceived and that it would not be wise to delay a peace treaty for much longer . |
| 10 | Many people within those marvellous specialist services in London believe that attracting patients from around the country , and the money that will come with them as the reforms develop , will strengthen those outstanding services . |