Example sentences of "[noun sg] believe [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Researchers at the Woolwich Centre for Computer Crime Research believe that improved personnel procedures have a key role to play in improving internal controls .
2 Sue Punton , the senior sister at the hospital 's gerontology department believes that essential oils help geriatric patients in several ways .
3 Notwithstanding the fact that , according to the document , The Future Value of our Qualification , issued at the same time as the Manifesto , the Institute believes that chartered accountants want it to ‘ safeguard the reputation of the profession and to enhance the value of their qualification ’ and ‘ to concentrate on helping them succeed professionally ’ , at the present time practising members are concerned primarily with their practices ' cash flow and profitability , and the threat of litigation .
4 Consequently the committee believes that non-executive directors will not be perceived by the public as being independent of the executive directors , hence the need for the audit review panel . ’
5 The regulations recently produced were indeed unhelpful when attempting to contain disturbed young people , but it is again another example of a ‘ knee-jerk ’ reaction to believe that tighter guidelines will cure the problem .
6 For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev .
7 Researchers at Bristol University believe that low doses of naturally occurring human steroids can prevent the progressive destruction of joints of people who have rheumatoid arthritis .
8 The commission believes that tougher standards on fuels and engines should be introduced by the government at the earliest possible date to provide an incentive to the transport industry .
9 Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used .
10 The Government believed that postal ballots were essential for the nation 's industrial recovery and regeneration , Mr Galbraith said .
11 In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies .
12 Militant believes that basic reforms in society can not be achieved without victory in the class struggle .
13 The federation believes that 53,000 jobs in engineering will disappear next year — a fall of 2.5 per cent — with mechanical and electrical engineering and the car industry the worst affected .
14 Age Concern believes that convalescent facilities must be available to all elderly patients who require them .
15 Age Concern believes that these issues should be explicitly considered when discussions take place about responsibilities of health authorities , family practitioner committees and self-governing hospitals .
16 There is reason to believe that young children admitted to care have greater medical needs than their peers who are not in care ; and that a greater proportion are handicapped .
17 There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well .
18 In the opinion of Melanie Clore there is no reason to believe that such prices could not be repeated at the present time .
19 In Britain , Canada , Israel , and the US , for example , there is reason to believe that professional levels of social work education should be placing a higher emphasis on training social workers to function in social service systems that use a broad range of personnel .
20 In the US , the Cohen Commission 's influential report suggested that : ‘ There is no reason to believe that independent auditors are more likely to predict whether a company will liquidate than they are able to predict the outcome of any other uncertainties …
21 There is good reason to believe that these attacks were well justified , because after the defeat of the rising and Cade 's death , a commission , sent into Kent to investigate extortions there , held inquests in various parts of the shire between late August and late October 1450 .
22 We were told that not only had the Argentinian fleet continued on their route to the Falklands but there was now every reason to believe that Argentinian troops had landed .
23 Quite apart from the fact that managers do not dominate the board of directors in many firms , there is every reason to believe that corporate managers are under intense pressure ( from the markets , and from the need to deliver profits ) to behave capitalistically .
24 Others maintained that , even if he knew nothing of these crimes , he was morally responsible in that he had contributed substantially to the general climate which allowed members of his organization to believe that such acts were justified in order to destabilize the government of Terence O'Neill .
25 Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay .
26 Even engineers who are familiar with binaural stereo believe that Zuccarelli recordings sound better .
27 However , it can be argued that prescribing of psychotropic drugs when marital and social difficulties are pre-eminent might encourage the patient to believe that such problems are due to ‘ illness ’ and therefore not surmountable by his own efforts .
28 Later this year , NASA will launch the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite , and Welsh believes that many stars in the tunnel will be detected .
29 The Labour Party believes that these qualifications are so serious that they remove any presumption that the government can rely on a free market economy .
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