Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] believe that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 2 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |
| 3 | Well then I ca n't believe that any garage would , would refuse to give you a ten piece for their own machine . |
| 4 | Friends of mine who read SHE ca n't believe that this man who is so outrageous on the page is so quiet in real life . |
| 5 | Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election . |
| 6 | Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased . |
| 7 | I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time . |
| 8 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |