Example sentences of "[prep] believe that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 2 | This is another reason for believing that the best regressions take place under hypnosis . |
| 3 | In such circumstances there is every reason for believing that the representative producer will not raise output at all and hence that y will not deviate from y * ; . |
| 4 | There are reasons for believing that the official UK unemployment figures , measured as the number of people claiming benefits , may understate the actual number of people unemployed . |
| 5 | I will not rehearse again my reasons for believing that the European Parliament is incapable of filling this democratic void and that for the foreseeable future the elected legislature should remain in national hands . |
| 6 | Even during the recorded period , however , there are persuasive reasons for believing that the actual quantity of reserves used for intervention was at least $650m-$700m . |
| 7 | Can he be blamed for believing that the only things which exist are himself and the table ? |
| 8 | We will instead provide reasons for believing that the mental lexicon consists of separate sub-systems : one containing semantic information , another containing phonological information , and a third orthographic information . |
| 9 | Intimate searches must be authorised by an officer of at least the rank of superintendent who , under section 55 , must have reasonable grounds for believing that the arrested person may have concealed on him anything which he could and might use to cause physical injury to himself or others or that he might have concealed a class A drug . |
| 10 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |
| 11 | Finally , there are very good grounds for believing that the rising crime wave is real — material conditions for large sections of the community have deteriorated markedly . |
| 12 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 13 | But we do not generally fall into the trap of believing that a statistical correlation between two variables demonstrates that one is the cause of the other ; it is assumed that the actuation of language change is multi-causal , and we have frequently demonstrated that the speaker-variables interact with one another ( that is , that no speaker-variable all by itself can ‘ explain' a given configuration of language ) . |
| 14 | Having recognized that emotion does not buy God , I now fell into the trap of believing that the right method does . |
| 15 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 16 | For example , from the model derived above it is clear that output will be raised above its normal rate only if people in general are fooled into believing that the average price level is lower than it actually is . |
| 17 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 18 | And John of Salisbury was not alone in believing that the administrative class was in dire need of instruction , lest it subvert the common good in its own or its master 's interests . |
| 19 | They were no doubt correct in believing that the financial burdens of Empire fell heavily on the two Castiles : heavy taxation drove industry and population to the peripheral regions and emphasized the decline of agriculture . |
| 20 | A counsellor concluded that professionals ‘ Have conditioned themselves to believing that the disabled person is the person who should be helped rather than the helper . ’ |