Example sentences of "[noun sg] believe [conj] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Bishop believed that change was essential and reported on his return to Washington that there was undue complacency in Tokyo ; the vested interests in the occupation bureaucracy believed that American dominance in Japan must be continued for a considerable period and Bishop held that tough action would be required in order to transform attitudes and to terminate the occupation . |
| 4 | The Institute believes that sole practice should continue to be permitted , but with extra safeguards . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Given the present public concern about the effectiveness of auditing , the committee believes that appropriate legislation is required as a matter of urgency . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | In fact the US Agriculture Undersecretary believes that European sugar policies cost less-developed nations about two billion dollars a year in lost export earnings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The deists and Christian rationalists of the Enlightenment believed that rational argument could demonstrate the existence of God , just as Descartes had maintained before them . |
| 12 | The Commission believes that effective mission depends upon inspired worship , and that inspired worship usually demands the contribution of good music . |
| 13 | The Government believed that postal ballots were essential for the nation 's industrial recovery and regeneration , Mr Galbraith said . |
| 14 | In addition , the government believed that local taxation should reflect the role of local authorities as service providers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The society believes that good freelance editors and proofreaders are becoming increasingly hard to find because the pool from which they are drawn — editors leaving full-time employment — is drying up as a result of a lack of inhouse training and the general reduction in numbers . |
| 17 | Militant believes that basic reforms in society can not be achieved without victory in the class struggle . |
| 18 | Age Concern believes that convalescent facilities must be available to all elderly patients who require them . |
| 19 | They state that the Government believes that free competition between the providers of legal services will , through the discipline of the market , ensure that the public is provided with the most efficient and effective network of legal services at the most economical price . |
| 20 | Almost all Japanese believed that colonial rule in Korea should be extended for a very lengthy period , if not permanently . |
| 21 | In a King George 's Jubilee Trust report , The Needs of Youth ( 1939 ) , A. E. Morgan was another who brooded over ‘ a growing contempt by the young person for the procedures of juvenile courts ’ and the ‘ grave reason to believe that parental control is slackening ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But addiction to chemicals is clearly real , and there seems no reason to believe that compulsive chemical-taking is necessarily in a different class from other acquired compulsive habits . |
| 29 | Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay . |
| 30 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |