Example sentences of "[pers pn] believe that [adj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 In looking at routes to permanence I have already indicated that I believe that long-term fostering will be the best route for a number , albeit a diminishing number , of children in care .
2 I believe that great progress will be made .
3 I believe that local authorities should have a strong housing function that we as local authorities should be providing good , well managed social housing in which our tenants have a say , where we have good tenant participation , where we have tenants taking a part in the sorts of repairs that they want to see , where every year they are er consulted and asked about where they want us to go next in terms of modernisation and repair .
4 She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners .
5 She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided .
6 We welcome the emphasis on Communication as the main aim of language teaching , but we believe that real communication can only be achieved when there is a sound knowledge of linguistic structure .
7 We believe that young people should be free to choose between college , work-based training and sixth form studies .
8 We insist on integrity because we believe that internal compromises would deny what is often called " equality before the law " and sometimes " formal equality . "
9 We believe that British Coal can achieve a significant share of the coal market for generation in the new contracts which begin in 1993 , and we believe that it will be able to achieve that at competitive prices .
10 We believe that restorative proctocolectomy should not be advised for Crohn 's disease and that if there are features suspicious of the disease , a preliminary colectomy should be advised .
11 We believe that German unification will prove more troublesome than anyone has been expecting , keeping interest and exchange rates higher than expected .
12 But we do n't believe that those sort of problems can be solved centrally , we believe that local communities can look at their own areas and see what they can do to lessen the problem .
13 We believe that local colleges should have a local input , ’ he said .
14 We believe that social anthropologists can contribute more to the debates , in both empirical and theoretical terms .
15 Assume that they believe that sufficient liquidity will be achieved if 10 per cent of their assets are held as balances with the Bank of England .
16 This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary .
17 He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian .
18 He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings .
19 To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ?
20 Does he believe that bad employers should be subsidised by the state in that way ?
21 It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas .
22 And if Hoylake wins its takeover battle for BAT , he believes that other companies will embark on the acquisitions trail , giving the market a boost .
23 On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest .
24 He believes that non-violent rape can be ‘ most excusable . ’
25 Like Jakobson , he believes that literary language can be analyzed objectively and exactly , though rather than speaking of its ‘ poetic ’ function , he opts for the term ‘ stylistic ’ function instead .
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