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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well .
4 In the opinion of Melanie Clore there is no reason to believe that such prices could not be repeated at the present time .
5 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 .
6 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 …
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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