Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] believe that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early stages of the Channel Tunnel project British Rail believed that the existing rail network in the South East could cope with any extra traffic after 1993 despite the fact that a report to Kent County Council in 1985 stated that ‘ the rail lines to London are already very heavily used and have little spare capacity ’ . |
| 2 | The great weight of Scottish opinion believes that the distinctive nature of Scottish life , with its own legal system , its own philosophy on education and its own traditions , is insufficiently recognised by the United Kingdom Parliament . |
| 3 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 4 | When watching parliamentary television , I have not often felt that there was an unfair political balance and none of the Members I interviewed raised this matter , except that one Liberal Democrat believed that the smaller parties were squeezed out of live coverage on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 5 | About 140 rightwing members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party believe that the Maritime Self-Defence Force , the Japanese navy , should accompany the shipments of plutonium . |
| 6 | An estoppel is raised when the original owner by his statements or conduct leads the innocent purchaser to believe that the unauthorised seller in fact has the right to sell the goods . |
| 7 | However , just as basic systems theory suggests that every system begins and ends with the individual and , therefore , that all systems are circular , there is good reason to believe that a common policy for education can only be arrived at by looking at the array of experiences of different individuals instead of others ' perceptions of these experiences . |
| 8 | Bristol had been dominated by the Whigs since 1695 , and had fallen to the Tories only in 1710 in the Sacheverellite backlash , so Daines had good reason to believe that a careful cultivation of the electorate could pay dividends . |
| 9 | Suffice it to say that there is good reason to believe that the original censuses in Numbers 1 and 26 set out the numbers of each tribe , somewhat in this form : |
| 10 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 11 | The Federal Environmental Office believes that a 50 per cent increase in emissions is likely in the transport sector ( including air traffic ) . |
| 12 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |
| 13 | The other school believes that the traditional skills of the paste-up artist should be retained rather than sacrificed on the altar of automation . |
| 14 | No one who is serious about urban planning believes that a linear city stretching for mile after mile on both sides of the Thames will ever be built . |