Example sentences of "reason believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s , the food supply system of Butare was reported to be adequate ; twenty years later we have reasons to believe that Butare 's steadily increasing population is finding it difficult to maintain the grip on familiar supply mechanisms . |
| 2 | The competition authorities should concern themselves with firms ' conduct only when there is reason to believe that competition is absent ( or would be absent were the conduct permitted ) . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints . |
| 4 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 5 | However , there is no reason to believe that behaviour can not be switched by simpler means such as false cues . |
| 6 | Similarly , there is no reason to believe that matriliny preceded patriliny . |
| 7 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 8 | Unless the applicant for service has good reason to believe that service by simple delivery will be accepted , he should supply a translation , for there is otherwise a risk of delay while the Central Authority reports that that mode of delivery has failed and requests a translation of the document . |
| 9 | There is , however , no reason to believe that fundectomy is associated with increased duodenogastric reflux . |
| 10 | Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics . |
| 11 | There is also an increasing awareness amongst neo-Marxists that the failure of state socialist regimes ' consumer markets and productivity rates to compare favourably with Western capitalism gives workers in capitalist society little reason to believe that socialism will improve their material prosperity . |
| 12 | There is every reason to believe that nerve fibres can also transmit messages from cell to cell with different codes . |
| 13 | Indeed , I have every reason to believe that Father did not regard me as decorative at all . |
| 14 | And although elite mobility is likely to decline , ‘ there is reason to believe that access to positions in the political elite will remain less restricted in character than is typically the case in the capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , p. 242 ) . |