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

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1 Given the present public concern about the effectiveness of auditing , the committee believes that appropriate legislation is required as a matter of urgency .
2 The Government believed that postal ballots were essential for the nation 's industrial recovery and regeneration , Mr Galbraith said .
3 One chief executive believed that such thinking was so important to his organization 's success in a high-tech field that he staged a highly imaginative top management meeting .
4 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 ’ .
5 In the US , the Cohen Commission 's influential report suggested that : ‘ There is no reason to believe that independent auditors are more likely to predict whether a company will liquidate than they are able to predict the outcome of any other uncertainties …
6 In November 1991 the Social Services Department of the local authority had reason to believe that this condition was being repeatedly and grossly breached .
7 There is good reason to believe that these attacks were well justified , because after the defeat of the rising and Cade 's death , a commission , sent into Kent to investigate extortions there , held inquests in various parts of the shire between late August and late October 1450 .
8 Quite apart from the fact that managers do not dominate the board of directors in many firms , there is every reason to believe that corporate managers are under intense pressure ( from the markets , and from the need to deliver profits ) to behave capitalistically .
9 But addiction to chemicals is clearly real , and there seems no reason to believe that compulsive chemical-taking is necessarily in a different class from other acquired compulsive habits .
10 Others maintained that , even if he knew nothing of these crimes , he was morally responsible in that he had contributed substantially to the general climate which allowed members of his organization to believe that such acts were justified in order to destabilize the government of Terence O'Neill .
11 Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay .
12 In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews .
13 However , it can be argued that prescribing of psychotropic drugs when marital and social difficulties are pre-eminent might encourage the patient to believe that such problems are due to ‘ illness ’ and therefore not surmountable by his own efforts .
14 Hecht believes that this system was a source of conflict in domestic employment .
15 The Labour Party believes that these qualifications are so serious that they remove any presumption that the government can rely on a free market economy .
16 If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ?
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