Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] believe that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If , as I have argued , neurophysiological explanations of mind explain nothing and if physiological observations give us no purchase on the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind , how has the myth become so powerful that many people within and outside the scientific community do believe that neurophysiology has advanced ( or will advance ) our understanding of mind and the mind-body relationship ?
2 The British Heart Foundation does believe that cholesterol is one of the risk factors for heart disease in men , particularly younger men .
3 Those who support the cultural deprivation theory tend to believe that education can play a large part in remedying social inequality , while Marxists believe that education is an essential part of the process of reproducing inequality .
4 His audience wanted to believe that battle had , in the end , been unavoidable .
5 The ergonomist has to believe that work is a good thing and that to conduct it efficiently is always better than to conduct it inefficiently .
6 Certainly , a large section of the British public came to believe that standards had declined , and , as Thomas ( 1928 ) observed , ‘ if men define situations as real , they are real in their consequences ’ .
7 So skilled an illustrator was Rackham , that the reader begins to believe that trees have faces , mermaids gather shells beneath the sea and fairies fly through Kensington Gardens .
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