Example sentences of "[noun sg] believe [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A minority believed that a large number of cases were based on minor grievances , and that complainants rushed to court in the passion of the moment . |
| 3 | Age Concern believes that a national energy strategy is required to improve standards of insulation and energy conservation and to reduce the high costs of heating which deter poorer consumers from keeping themselves warm . |
| 4 | Although it was initially believed that lowering mucosal prostaglandin values in ulcerative colitis would be therapeutic , and that the beneficial effect of therapeutic agents sulfasalazine and 5-ASA analogues is through their ability to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , it isnow believed that a simple decrease in prostaglandins does not elicit a beneficial effect in ulcerative colitis and may even be harmful . |
| 5 | Joan Thirsk 's brilliant examination of these variations , region by region , illustrates this for the period from 1500 onwards ( 103 , pp.1–112 ) , and there is no reason to believe that a similar diversity did not exist at the earlier period also , although there were probably changes in detail in particular areas , such as those caused by climatic change to which allusion was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 6 | There is no reason to believe that a new chancellor would make Britain richer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is no reason to believe that an increasing disparity between the standards of morality and behaviour which one has grown up to believe were true and right and those displayed and legitimated in the surrounding society can not of itself provide the ground for commitment to a movement of moral reform . |
| 10 | some course leaders ' definition of ‘ enterprise ’ differed from that given by the Enterprise Centre — a number believe that a particular industry 's skills should be included under the umbrella of enterprise . |
| 11 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |