Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to believe that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Margaret Meek ( 1982 , p.26 ) says that ‘ The parents ’ role … is to encourage the child to believe that reading is a worthwhile and pleasurable thing to do , that literacy is within his grasp , and to provide the means for his enjoyment and success ' .
2 It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests .
3 ‘ I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies , education and culture for their minds , and dignity , equality and freedom for their spirits .
4 Propaganda against the Woodvilles had led the commonalty to believe that Rivers , Vaughan and Grey had plotted to gain control of the as yet uncrowned king .
5 There are conceptual and methodological problems to overcome , and the need to resist the tendency to believe that QOL can be assessed with a single quickly applied composite measure .
6 The threat need not be one offering physical violence , since it may be such as to provoke another to engage in violence , although it usually will be an offer of force of some kind leading the victim to believe that violence against him or another person is about to be used or provoked .
7 Up until now there has been no need to believe that neutrinos have any mass at all .
8 Similarly , there is no reason to believe that matriliny preceded patriliny .
9 Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics .
10 However , there is no reason to believe that behaviour can not be switched by simpler means such as false cues .
11 There is , however , no reason to believe that fundectomy is associated with increased duodenogastric reflux .
12 praised Henry in a list of the great figures of the English court ; but there is no reason to believe that Henry held a position corresponding to the modern poet laureate , as has sometimes been alleged .
13 It must also be remembered , however , that there is every reason to believe that dunes will represent the interaction between local wind and sand conditions and the resultants of short term and long term changes in these conditions .
14 I have every reason to believe that authorities have made use of these powers .
15 Indeed , I have every reason to believe that Father did not regard me as decorative at all .
16 There is every reason to believe that nerve fibres can also transmit messages from cell to cell with different codes .
17 The Conservatives have a tendency to believe that planning decisions can be taken on the profit motive .
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