Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] believe [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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
5 Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay .
6 The Green Party believes that local people have the right to decide how their communities are run .
7 Even engineers who are familiar with binaural stereo believe that Zuccarelli recordings sound better .
8 Some people in the Labour party believe that high house prices mean high living standards and affluence .
9 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 .
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