Example sentences of "believing [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next sentence begins ‘ Yet reason tells me … ’ and ends ‘ … then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination , can hardly be considered real . ’ |
| 2 | But we do not generally fall into the trap of believing that a statistical correlation between two variables demonstrates that one is the cause of the other ; it is assumed that the actuation of language change is multi-causal , and we have frequently demonstrated that the speaker-variables interact with one another ( that is , that no speaker-variable all by itself can ‘ explain' a given configuration of language ) . |
| 3 | As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force . |
| 4 | Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne ANGELO ABELA ( father of Lucia , 2 ) Why Weeps the Brogan ? by Hugh Scott ( Walker Books , £7.95 ) A nuclear disaster leaves Saxon and Gilbert believing that a buried museum is their world and that beyond its great doors lies only dust and darkness . |
| 5 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 6 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 7 | Anyone believing that the personal computer price wars have abated are in for a rude shock this week when Compaq Computer Corp brings out a plethora of new machines , including its first stab at a multimedia model , and cuts prices significantly on its existing products . |
| 8 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
| 9 | I will not rehearse again my reasons for believing that the European Parliament is incapable of filling this democratic void and that for the foreseeable future the elected legislature should remain in national hands . |
| 10 | They were no doubt correct in believing that the financial burdens of Empire fell heavily on the two Castiles : heavy taxation drove industry and population to the peripheral regions and emphasized the decline of agriculture . |
| 11 | Believing that the recent emergence of theory in literary education is a symptom of disorder , I find the contradictions as symptomatic as the coherences . |
| 12 | And back in November host county Cleveland also booked Clairville Stadium for the Inter Counties fixture this Saturday , believing that the four counties would be competing as usual . |
| 13 | That was just how the circuit bosses liked things , believing that the best way to hold on to their audience was through ‘ family entertainment ’ , and arguing through the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association ( CEA ) that filmmakers should avoid treating themes and incidents that ‘ were offensive to the reasonable taste and standards of those whose patronage was necessary to the health and future of the industry . ’ |
| 14 | This is another reason for believing that the best regressions take place under hypnosis . |
| 15 | Most of us spend our lives believing that the best marriages are those rare unions where two hearts really do beat as one . |
| 16 | Can he be blamed for believing that the only things which exist are himself and the table ? |
| 17 | In such circumstances there is every reason for believing that the representative producer will not raise output at all and hence that y will not deviate from y * ; . |
| 18 | Having recognized that emotion does not buy God , I now fell into the trap of believing that the right method does . |
| 19 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 20 | We will instead provide reasons for believing that the mental lexicon consists of separate sub-systems : one containing semantic information , another containing phonological information , and a third orthographic information . |
| 21 | This sounded entirely in character , and believing that the said Armstrongs were well able to find their own way back to Eskdale and look after themselves , Douglas ordered onward progress . |
| 22 | There are reasons for believing that the official UK unemployment figures , measured as the number of people claiming benefits , may understate the actual number of people unemployed . |
| 23 | Even during the recorded period , however , there are persuasive reasons for believing that the actual quantity of reserves used for intervention was at least $650m-$700m . |
| 24 | For example , from the model derived above it is clear that output will be raised above its normal rate only if people in general are fooled into believing that the average price level is lower than it actually is . |
| 25 | And John of Salisbury was not alone in believing that the administrative class was in dire need of instruction , lest it subvert the common good in its own or its master 's interests . |
| 26 | I have not attempted to use quantitative techniques or ( with one exception ) statistical analyses , believing that the close inspection of conversational data can tell us more about what " London Jamaican " really is than any quantitative approach . |
| 27 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 28 | A counsellor concluded that professionals ‘ Have conditioned themselves to believing that the disabled person is the person who should be helped rather than the helper . ’ |
| 29 | Nilsson ( 1949 ) points out that the Phaistos daemons are similar to daemons shown on Babylonian and Assyrian amulets , believing that the Minoan daemons were simply copies of these foreign monsters . |
| 30 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |