Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] believe [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do believe that one act of violence seeds another . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't get under trying to change the perceptions of white policemen but I do believe that black policemen have a strong responsibility to protect their people . |
| 3 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 4 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 5 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
| 6 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 7 | Mr Deputy Speaker , as the honourable members knows , our S S A calculations are on slightly different basis from England as we set out in this report and we do believe that local authorities should have the maximum flexibility to make their own decisions and it is therefore a matter for local debate . |
| 8 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |