Example sentences of "believing [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 2 | He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā . |
| 3 | The situation today is divorced from what Mill/Rousseau envisaged , each believing in participatory democracy contained within the ideal of a ‘ rational , active , and informed democratic man ’ . |
| 4 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 5 | Then , having assembled the people , and by the king 's order , they preached about believing in one God and spurning pagan superstitions . |
| 6 | The argument gains much strength by considering the case of theoretical authority , i.e. authority for believing in certain propositions . |
| 7 | This government is not believing in integrated strategy , it never has done and it never will do and with the current the Government expansion plans it is becoming less and less likely . |
| 8 | It 's something I 'm very proud to say that I am , cos I believe in equal rights and that 's what feminism is , is believing in equal rights for women . |
| 9 | You could even be right , head , the little cheat almost had me believing in blood-spitting puppets . |
| 10 | Every day , we can either be driven by the past — repeating our customary patterns and habits , believing in old limitations — or we can be propelled by our future , by our Dreams , by what we are becoming . |
| 11 | If it really is the case that all I am doing when I have beliefs about the world is to have dispositions to behave , then it ought to make sense for me to think of my believing in those terms . |
| 12 | It seems that there are definite survival advantages to believing in free will and responsibility for one 's actions . |
| 13 | I trust all parties in this house will unite , not only in believing in local government but in agreeing that local government should set and maintain the highest possible standards of conduct when spending the very substantial sums of money parliament votes to it . |
| 14 | It is an aspect of metaphysics , which is the study of what we are justified in believing from first principles . |
| 15 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |