Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while we know this , we must still believe that objective truth is obtainable ; or we must believe that it is 99 per cent obtainable ; or if we ca n't believe this we must believe that 43 per cent objective truth is better than 41 per cent . |
| 2 | Another important implication of behavioural rights such as these , is that if you believe in your own rights then , to be consistent , you must also believe that other people enjoy the same rights . |
| 3 | I might really believe that smoking cigarettes does me no harm . |
| 4 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 5 | ‘ I simply ca n't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets . |
| 6 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 7 | The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) . |