Example sentences of "[adv] believe [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 2 | In higher education , we naturally believe that a fundamental aspect of the student 's programme of studies consists of getting the student on the inside of just such internal standards of reasoning in the discipline he or she is studying . |
| 3 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 4 | I had long believed that the primary health care team did not really work but that it could be made to do so by adhering to contracts . |
| 5 | Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference . |
| 6 | Mr Waterfield likens a game of croquet to a game of snooker and personally believes that the outdoor game preceded the indoor , with both based on similar objectives . |
| 7 | On a recent visit to the Imperial War Museum to see the new display relating to the Home Front , I could scarcely believe that the tiny quantities of food represented by the plastic replicas were really the weekly allowances by which we kept together body , soul and fighting spirit . |
| 8 | Many of us still incorrectly believe that a well-balanced diet should include only small amounts of bread because it is fattening . |
| 9 | It is generally believed that the normal oesophagus is only active in response to a stimulus ( deglutition or oesophageal distension resulting in primary or secondary peristalsis ) and that non-glutitive activity of the oesophageal body is mostly abnormal . |
| 10 | It was generally believed that the poor performance of the front-end systems required this . |
| 11 | Some part of Sisson 's censures must surely be conceded : whatever esteem we have and should have for Gavin Douglas 's translation of the Aeneid , we can hardly believe that the Philadelphian Ezra Pound was any more at ease than most of us with Bishop Douglas 's sixteenth-century Scots . |
| 12 | They have no rights in the Palace at all and are , at almost every opportunity , shunned by MPs who mistakenly believe that the European Parliament ( and not the Council ) is their natural adversary . |
| 13 | ‘ We still believe that a Welsh education development body can develop from PDAG . |
| 14 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard decided — or were persuaded by independent software vendors — that a common kernel was not a necessity for competing with NT , which is why COSE does not address the issue , even though some observers still believe that the perceived lack of a common Unix kernel will hand Bill Gates a propaganda advantage . |
| 15 | Many members of the Bar still believe that the European Community is , as one Tory MP put it very recently , airy-fairy . |
| 16 | ‘ I have always believed that the only way to increase wealth is to share it more equally , both globally and nationally . |
| 17 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 18 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |
| 19 | Will he further recognise that his announcement today , while totally predictable — nobody ever believed that a genuine consultation process was taking place — represents one of the final death knells for the discredited band of brigands who represent the Scottish Conservative party ? |
| 20 | Marx nonetheless believed that an external reality did exist , and that human consciousness could understand it . |
| 21 | Ken sincerely believed that a separate-bedroom marriage would be the perfect relationship with someone for whom he cared so much . |
| 22 | Thus , though Smith still believes that the military-industrial complex is a misnomer for a process which is driven by the requirements of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 23 | If we believe that expectations about Y t are formed rationally then we must also believe that the actual value of Y t diverges from the value that people expect , by a random error which we label v t . |
| 24 | The letter rogatory specifies those facts and circumstances causing the requesting party reasonably to believe that the requested documents are or were in the possession , control , or custody of , or are known to the person from whom the documents are requested . |
| 25 | ‘ We also believe that the British Government must establish more effective safeguards against the wanton use of lethal force and against further collusion between the security forces and Protestant paramilitary groups . ’ |
| 26 | I also believe that the editorial staff of the magazine are open to criticism in allowing the article to printed as it was . |
| 27 | Come on , Miss Williams , you 're not so naïve that you honestly believe that a mere apology will make up for the way you behaved . ’ |
| 28 | Trist also believed that the primary task of management was to relate the organisation to its environment . |
| 29 | Charles Letts and Co Ltd had clearly believed that the average school-boy had a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts . |
| 30 | Jesus clearly believed that the main aim of the ( Old Testament ) scriptures was to point people to himself ; which means in practice ( if we add Luke 's evidence to John 's ) , that through repentance and faith men and women should find the forgiveness and life which he had died and risen to make possible for them . |