Example sentences of "believing [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where God has given us sure and sufficient reasons for believing or the possibility of profound understanding in our believing , it is perverse to insist on having less than what he offers . |
| 2 | Cumberland was on record as believing that a battle without a cannonade was like a dance without music and Culloden began as a gunners ’ battle . |
| 3 | Believing that a man is about to set off a bomb wo n't make our soldier do anything , unless he also wants something : in this case , to prevent an explosion . |
| 4 | However , there is at least a prima facie case for believing that a word form like bank should be considered to represent more than one lexical unit . |
| 5 | Although she trained teachers for infant schools , Mason was not in favour of nursery schools , believing that a home education was the best kind . |
| 6 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 7 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 8 | It is misguided in believing that a solution to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power can ever be found by looking to either the market or the ordering of power within the company . |
| 9 | Once again the question arises whether a man , who persists in believing that a woman consents despite an active demonstration by her that such consent is denied , should have a defence to rape . |
| 10 | When Lord Hunter asked those officers who could have planted the incriminating pieces of paper in the pocket of Griffiths 's overcoat ( which he was n't wearing that night ) and all of them , as one would expect , denied it , he could then delude himself into believing that no planting had taken place . |
| 11 | Mrs Ephraim Cook did not agree with her , believing that every child should learn to read as firmly as she believed they should wash behind their ears every morning and not relieve themselves , like dogs , in the street . |
| 12 | Admittedly , we on the ground were not the ones who put their lives in danger every night , but as far as the air crew were concerned it was a job they had volunteered to do and they did it willingly , believing that every effort counted in the long run . |
| 13 | All the superintendent must have are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is a serious arrestable one ; this safeguard , therefore , is obviated where the police think one of these vague and undefined consequences might occur . |
| 14 | Believing that an artist has to suffer to make his statement , he puts himself through dangerous sequences like cutting off his breathing . |
| 15 | ( d ) That the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that an arrest is necessary to protect a child … |
| 16 | It would only be right to have regard to facilities if there are objective grounds for believing that the lender will fulfil his commitment . |
| 17 | I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it . |
| 18 | ‘ Yesterday morning we had almost reached the point , I think , of believing that the test would be plain sailing — we really did think he would make it . |
| 19 | Believing that the merchants were responsible for his sequestration in 1644 , following the interception of a letter of his to Charles I , Crowe retaliated in 1646 by bribing the grand vizier to arrest all the company 's factory at Constantinople and some of its merchants at Smyrna . |
| 20 | He was lied to , conned into believing that the Bad Schwarzendorn operation had been approved by the Army . |
| 21 | Our distinguished , and rightly furious , director James Cellan Jones s quoted in the Times as believing that the BBC has lost its nerve in the wake of the Panorama libel case , which ended in a £250,000 settlement . |
| 22 | Yet the commercial farmers can be forgiven for believing that the decision to buy the white farms has been taken for short-term political reasons rather than longer-term ones of efficiency or fairness . |
| 23 | Wynne Godley has been consistently the gloomiest economist operating in Britain , believing that the UK economy is suffering from severe structural weaknesses , and it will remain locked in a low growth and high unemployment pattern for years . |
| 24 | If a person prays believing that the prayer will be answered , then that person will receive an answer . |
| 25 | On the one hand there are those who consider it only one step away from witchcraft , believing that the hypnotherapist is able to subjugate the will and dominate the mind of his unconscious victim . |
| 26 | In practice there are strong grounds for believing that the money stock is not entirely exogenous . |
| 27 | Because of the extent of such powerful human action Sherlock concluded that there were indications that the doctrine of uniformitarianism had been carried too far , believing that the present , which has been so modified by human action can not readily be the key to the past , when the extent of human modification and human influence was significantly less . |
| 28 | Second , the defendant has what one might term the ‘ lawful motivation ’ , believing that the actions taken were right and proper . |
| 29 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 30 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |