Example sentences of "[noun sg] believes that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Conway Morris of Cambridge University 's Earth Science Department believes that the comparative emptiness of the early oceans indicates minimal inter-group rivalry , but that 520 million years ago the competition began to hot up , and the basic animal groups , evidenced from parts of the fossil record of Northern America and Australia , were reduced from 55 to around 35 . |
| 2 | If the court on review believes that the requisite situation spoken of in the statute did not exist then the conclusion reached by the tribunal will be a nullity . |
| 3 | You say that the District Council believes that the two sites to the north of Church Lane Skelton should be excluded from the greenbelt and included in the inset for the village . |
| 4 | So the point erm I wish to make erm on er Mr 's observations , is that it 's not the strategy of the structure plan was not simply erm to seek an initial reduction erm in the rate of residential development in the county and then that roll that rate forward in progressive erm amendments to the structure plan , Hambleton District Council believes that the logical interpretation of these statements is that a progressive reduction er in house building and the rates of migration should be sought through subsequent alterations to the plan . |
| 5 | If a coach believes that the black sportsman he is helping to prepare is naturally endowed with the physical equipment to produce fast sprints or hard jabs , or mazy runs through defences , it will affect his judgment as to the areas of speciality into which he should channel the efforts of that sportsman . |
| 6 | Daikin believes that the two parties have an important starting point . |
| 7 | The great weight of Scottish opinion believes that the distinctive nature of Scottish life , with its own legal system , its own philosophy on education and its own traditions , is insufficiently recognised by the United Kingdom Parliament . |
| 8 | Whannel believes that the main reason why this terminology has taken such an enduring grip is that it is being used to serve the commercial interests of Football League and club officials as part of a hidden agenda to attract a new type of football audience ( the ‘ family audience ’ ) and thereby solve the game 's economic crisis . |
| 9 | Having said this , and conscious of the arguments advanced in this Report against excluding non-believers , the Commission believes that the musical director needs to have some Christian commitment . |
| 10 | AI believes that the 1986 law should be reviewed to ensure that it does not lead to the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience . |
| 11 | One insider believes that the Common Open Software Environment firms have not yet decided whether to level the playing field at this technology point , or if systems management can be used an excuse for competitive advantage without hurting their collective drive against Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT : ‘ Do they want to solve the problem is the question ? ’ asks the source , who is afraid that ‘ systems management was a COSE epitaph . ’ |
| 12 | Age Concern believes that the basic state pension should be equal to one third average earnings for a single pension and one half for a couple . |
| 13 | These time limits are extremely important , because if the planning permission lapses there is no certainty that it will be re-granted , and going to appeal may well not help if the Secretary of State believes that the original consent should not have been granted . |
| 14 | The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision . |
| 15 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |
| 16 | The organization believes that the new plans could be in breach of European law requiring full environmental impact studies to be carried out . |
| 17 | The other school believes that the traditional skills of the paste-up artist should be retained rather than sacrificed on the altar of automation . |
| 18 | The answer is that under any and all circumstances , America 's Treasury believes that the Federal Reserve 's monetary policy is strangling the economy . |
| 19 | He will probably find his Treasury advisers are far less sanguine : the Treasury believes that the same factors which produced the late 1980s ' consumer boom are now working in reverse , with falling confidence and asset values undermining consumption though incomes are relatively buoyant . |
| 20 | The Board believes that the increased marketing expenditure now budgeted for strengthening the Waterford brands will contribute to profitable growth in this business . |
| 21 | In addition the Board believes that the best way to serve shareholders is to keep administration as simple as possible so that the Group can concentrate on its core business and maximise profit growth . ’ |
| 22 | This house believes that the British Govt. was solely responsible for the improvements in the quality of life of the British working class in the 19th Century . |
| 23 | Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience . |
| 24 | Offe believes that the institutional operations of the state are guided by three conditions . |