Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] believe [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attempt was inspired by the work of the Logical Positivists in the 1930s , notably Rudolph Carnap , Carl Hempel , and Ernest Nagel , and prompted very many social scientists to believe that scientific method could be boldly distilled in diagrams like Figure 3.1 . |
| 2 | In a King George 's Jubilee Trust report , The Needs of Youth ( 1939 ) , A. E. Morgan was another who brooded over ‘ a growing contempt by the young person for the procedures of juvenile courts ’ and the ‘ grave reason to believe that parental control is slackening ’ . |
| 3 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 4 | The old regime believed that such accountability and planning ran counter to the culture of academic autonomy . |
| 5 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 6 | One chief executive believed that such thinking was so important to his organization 's success in a high-tech field that he staged a highly imaginative top management meeting . |
| 7 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 8 | In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies . |
| 9 | There is good reason to believe that these attacks were well justified , because after the defeat of the rising and Cade 's death , a commission , sent into Kent to investigate extortions there , held inquests in various parts of the shire between late August and late October 1450 . |
| 10 | After 40 years of ‘ chasing mosquitoes ’ and trying to control the malaria they transmit , an eminent entomologist believes that recent policy changes by the World Health Organisation and the intervention of environmentalists have baulked the malariologists from their ultimate goal |
| 11 | Unfortunately some regulatory authorities believe that smaller dosages will increase the possibility of selecting for resistant pests ; the idea is that whereas large doses should kill everything stone dead , small doses allow marginally resistant individuals to survive and breed . |
| 12 | The outer space committee of the United Nations believes that remote-sensing satellites with a resolution of 25 m could be militarily useful . |
| 13 | Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay . |
| 14 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 15 | The Green Party believes that local people have the right to decide how their communities are run . |
| 16 | Even engineers who are familiar with binaural stereo believe that Zuccarelli recordings sound better . |
| 17 | Had the above account been a linguistic account , an explanation of the meaning of ‘ legitimate authority ’ , it would have followed that anyone who believes of a person that he has legitimate authority believes that that person satisfies the condition set by the justification thesis . |
| 18 | Some people in the Labour party believe that high house prices mean high living standards and affluence . |
| 19 | The Labour Party believes that these qualifications are so serious that they remove any presumption that the government can rely on a free market economy . |
| 20 | Any action which contradicts these laws — whether it is the working class believing that parliamentary reform can eradicate the exploitative nature of capitalism or capitalists believing that reform can eradicate the ultimate demands for fundamental and revolutionary change from the working class — is defined merely as an expression of false consciousness . |