Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] believe that [adj] [noun sg] " 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 The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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