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

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1 Contrast this with the words of a House of Lords Select Committee considering exactly the same problem : ‘ because of the high proportion [ of homes with polluted tapwater ] and the long-standing nature of the problem , the Committee believe that the two years for compliance with the Directive is wholly unrealistic . ’
2 You say that the District Council believes that the two sites to the north of Church Lane Skelton should be excluded from the greenbelt and included in the inset for the village .
3 Daikin believes that the two parties have an important starting point .
4 The Secretaries of State believe that the internal processes of reporting , recording and discussion between teacher and pupil should cover a pupil 's progress and activities across the whole educational programme of the school , both in the classroom and outside , and possibly activities outside the school as well .
5 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 .
6 Although he was convinced that there was conclusive evidence that Japanese intelligence organizations were behind the Vietminh and their revolt , he also said that throughout their handling of the situation the French appeared to lack every vestige of imagination but , ‘ provided the French are prepared to deal with the Annamites as human beings and not as chattels for exploitation as in the past , there is every reason to believe that the leading Annamites will not only listen to them , but will help them … ’
7 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 :
8 The organization believes that the new plans could be in breach of European law requiring full environmental impact studies to be carried out .
9 The other school believes that the traditional skills of the paste-up artist should be retained rather than sacrificed on the altar of automation .
10 He will probably find his Treasury advisers are far less sanguine : the Treasury believes that the same factors which produced the late 1980s ' consumer boom are now working in reverse , with falling confidence and asset values undermining consumption though incomes are relatively buoyant .
11 There the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement believes that a 600 rads surface dose would kill 90 per cent of the population , rather than 50 per cent .
12 Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience .
13 Offe believes that the institutional operations of the state are guided by three conditions .
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