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

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31 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 .
32 Age Concern believes that convalescent facilities must be available to all elderly patients who require them .
33 Age Concern believes that this issue needs urgent consideration in the context of the NHS Review , and that the statutory responsibilities of health authorities in this respect should be clarified .
34 Age Concern believes that older people need a wide variety of educational and leisure opportunities , to suit their broad range of backgrounds and abilities .
35 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 .
36 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 .
37 One chief executive believed that such thinking was so important to his organization 's success in a high-tech field that he staged a highly imaginative top management meeting .
38 Almost all Japanese believed that colonial rule in Korea should be extended for a very lengthy period , if not permanently .
39 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 ’ .
40 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 .
41 There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well .
42 In the opinion of Melanie Clore there is no reason to believe that such prices could not be repeated at the present time .
43 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 .
44 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 …
45 ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’
46 All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol .
47 " There 's something which I did n't mention , but I want to make it absolutely clear , and that is that I 've reason to believe that this craft , the Dreadnought , leaks quite badly . "
48 There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell .
49 In November 1991 the Social Services Department of the local authority had reason to believe that this condition was being repeatedly and grossly breached .
50 Nevertheless there is every reason to believe that some control applied at various stages of industrial exploitation could benefit the trade on a global scale .
51 Without its support we still have no reason to believe that any agreement will be reached behind the veil of ignorance .
52 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 .
53 Have you any reason to believe that either set of parents might make demands on either partner which would make ‘ leaving ’ difficult ?
54 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 .
55 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 .
56 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 .
57 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 .
58 Oakeshott believes that this tension ‘ is central to the understanding of a modern European state and office of its government ’ .
59 This recommendation provides a safety margin for non-stochastic effects , as the ICRP believes that 0.5 Sv ( 50 rem ) per annum would suffice for all tissues except the eye lens ( irradiation leads to lens opacification that would interfere with vision ) for which a limit of 0.3 Sv ( 30 rem ) in a year applies ( ICRP-26 , 1977 ; Pentreath , 1980 ) .
60 Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay .
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