Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] belief that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They give no reasons for their belief that modern physics , analytical psychology and the perennial philosophy will be the driving forces of the new world that we are approaching . |
| 2 | Gandhi is unable to harbour the thought , even secretly , that another man 's faith is inferior to his own because of his belief that different faiths are God 's creation and thereby equally holy . |
| 3 | This was part of his belief that poetic composition was not an activity that could be consciously controlled , that it had its roots far down in the unconscious . |
| 4 | Yet the Lord Chief Justice , giving oral evidence , said that he and the Lord Chancellor were at one in their belief that religious affinity should not take precedence over ability in the appointment of judges and , said The Times , he gave the impression that his positive feelings towards the judge were shared by the Lord Chancellor So oral evidence was admitted on the kind of matter for which privilege from disclosure of documents was claimed by the Crown . |
| 5 | But in his belief that economic efficiency must if necessary take priority over social justice , Keynes lacked the left-Liberal vision of a new moral order in society , More than half of Dr Clarke 's book is devoted to the debate over economic policy between 1928 and 1930 . |
| 6 | He further fails to fit them in his belief that natural philosophy fails to be a science simply because we are ignorant of the relevant real essences , not because there are no necessary connections in nature . |
| 7 | Maccoby and Jacklin 's interest in the sex difference in aggression rests largely on their belief that this difference is likely to be biologically founded . |
| 8 | Franco 's refusal to recognize that autarchy was economically and politically untenable was due partly to his belief that liberal democracy could not bring economic well-being , and partly to his lack of understanding of the complexities of economic policy-formulation . |
| 9 | He did not seem to appreciate the contradiction between his virulent denunciations of parliamentary democracy and the increasingly close economic ties being woven between Spain and the western democracies ; nor between his belief that economic nationalism was best and the fact that unless Spain liberalized its economic policies , it would remain isolated from the growth then beginning to be enjoyed by the rest of Europe . |
| 10 | If , however , we accept the moral argument we still need to find adequate reasons for our belief that professional development is a good thing per se . |
| 11 | The unacceptability of certain conversion methods is accentuated for Gandhi by his belief that all religions have elements of truth and error and that no particular religion can lay claim to a monopoly of the truth . |
| 12 | This book is guided by our belief that both traditions are fertile for the study of international relations , despite a lively tension between them . |