Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] believe [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mrs Duffy is hoping to have the murder case involving her son moved to another area where nobody has heard of the name Lee Duffy and where she believes a fairer trial would be held . |
| 2 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 3 | Although he believes the Labour vote is firmer than that of the Conservatives , the cautious conclusion in his camp is that , in the range of possibilities , a Labour majority government has a slight edge over Labour as the largest party in a hung parliament . |
| 4 | His mother spoke as if she believed an unnatural weight of learning had fallen on her son 's head and knocked him into madness . |
| 5 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 6 | but if you believe the proper price |
| 7 | We only supply newspapers if we believe a new outlet will expand the market . |
| 8 | Choosing this date also allows Balboa and his company a little breathing space : they can spend two full days marching from the unpleasantness in Quareca to the summits of the coastal range — rather more reasonable a period than the few hours that elapse if we believe the earlier date . |
| 9 | If one believes the second conjunct , one must invoke an unusual explanation for the sounds emanating from my mouth . |
| 10 | Candidates have the right to complain if they believe a governing body 's decision or procedures have been discriminatory and the latter will be answerable before an industrial tribunal . |
| 11 | They must draw attention to national needs if they believe the educational system is not adequately meeting them . |
| 12 | He spoke without conviction , as if he believed the last phrase was something he was obliged to say rather than genuinely believed . |
| 13 | These terminological changes are not made merely for the sake of variety but because I believe the substitute terms convey their meaning more pointedly than Marx 's originals . |
| 14 | But it was Susannah 's passionate appeal to the girls to support her party because she believes the Liberal Democrats care about the homeless that made her the winner . |
| 15 | This is because we believe the many aspects of manpower control essential in today 's climate can not be covered in detail in a relatively short presentation . |
| 16 | All claimed that they had attacked La Tablada because they believed a military coup was under way and that they were trying to forestall it ; they also said that their attempts to surrender had been ignored and that at least four of their comrades had been tortured and killed . |
| 17 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
| 18 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |
| 19 | More than 700 farmers gave their backing to the Carlisle mart firm Harrison & Hetherington which had called the meeting because it believes the new system could paralyse cattle marketing . |
| 20 | North of the border we 've heard nothing since ‘ 27 Forever ’ last Christmas , though I believe a limited edition 12″ was released in March . |
| 21 | If , until that moment , Cassie had laboured under the misconception that Bella was an ill-educated , ill-bred and mercenary little tart and that Johnny had married beneath him , as she believed the proper expression to be , then the sound of Bella 's voice dispelled any such comforting illusion . |
| 22 | The Conservatives want to see this link restored as they believe the present situation leads to extravagant and irresponsible local spending . |
| 23 | It is necessary , therefore , for each part of the universal Church to act ‘ as it believes the whole Church should act in obedience to Christ ’ . |