Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] believe that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 2 | I do n't know if anyone saw Football focus on Grandstand but I could n't believe that two loonies had tipped Sheff Wed over Leeds to win the Championship . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I simply ca n't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |