Example sentences of "[art] [adj] belief that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were Fred , aged 70 , and Betty , aged 66 , who embarked on a trial relationship in defiance of the prevailing belief that sex is only for the under-35s . |
| 2 | But he rejects the popular belief that information about the city 's blitz was suppressed to avoid damaging civilian morale . |
| 3 | Here the old belief that Nature tended to develop inevitably towards a predictable goal resurfaced in one of the newest branches of science , which had been designed to replace the old approach to natural history . |
| 4 | Along with many of his contemporaries , Mercator held the Baconian belief that knowledge should be exploited for utilitarian ends . |
| 5 | Erm , Congress , the Tomlinson review of the Health Service in London contains many questionable aspects , midst conclusions stem from the misguided belief that market forces will resolve all the problems . |
| 6 | Certainly there is no corroboration of the contemporary belief that mining engendered poverty . |
| 7 | This had led to the widespread belief that DIY CPE involves setting up expensive in-house training facilities with dedicated staff . |
| 8 | Nevertheless there was a fear of greater reprisals , and many hostages were shot in Europe , sometimes in the mistaken belief that commando actions were the work of local resistance fighters . |
| 9 | This can give rise to the mistaken belief that cocaine is not an addictive drug . |
| 10 | The notion of champions is based on the false belief that protection from competition leads to long-term strength , but , as one economist has shown , where rivals cluster they are forced to innovate and compete most . |
| 11 | Their search for the order of Nature still reflected a ‘ modernized ’ version of the traditional belief that Nature expresses harmonious relationships transcending the everyday problem of coping with the environment . |
| 12 | At one time it was fashionable to argue that Darwinism destroyed the traditional belief that Nature had been created by a wise and benevolent God , thereby ushering in an age of rampant materialism . |
| 13 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 14 | There is , in the minds of consumers , the automatic belief that quality takes second place whether this is true or not . |
| 15 | There has been a recognition of the constraints within which the Trust can plan its long-term management and for everyone a jolting out of the cosy belief that man is master . |
| 16 | ‘ Law and order ideology ’ — as we shall be using the phrase — is not simply the unexceptionable belief that society should be governed by law , and crime effectively controlled . |
| 17 | Richard Goldschmidt 's problem — which was one of a set that made him resort , for most of his professional life , to the extreme belief that evolution takes great leaps rather than small steps — turns out to be no problem at all . |
| 18 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 19 | What would ‘ the general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ have to say to this ? |
| 20 | For this reason in the downswing of the cycle , the sources for an increase in severity of punishment should not be sought either in specific ‘ economic ’ functions , such as the control of an increasing mass of the unemployed , or in specific motives of individual agents of social control , such as the common belief that unemployment causes crime . |
| 21 | There was a strong belief that radio should not merely give prominence to the national leadership but also take measures to reduce foreign influence and content in its programmes . |
| 22 | It is important that some referring agents are dissuaded from a popular belief that anxiety management equals relaxation training or any single technique . |
| 23 | Customary by the mid-thirteenth century , largely due to Innocent 's introduction of such a scheme , such taxes , however , did not bring money into the papal coffers but were granted to the leaders of the crusades , through there was a widespread belief that money collected for the Crusade by Philip the notary was doing exactly that , and in 1202 Innocent ordered an investigation . |
| 24 | This was a time of ‘ rehabilitative optimism ’ : there was a widespread belief that criminology and other behavioural sciences would progressively discover the causes of crime and the way to cure all offenders of their criminality . |
| 25 | There is a growing belief that payment by results schemes or reward linked to achievement of goals is an unleashing factor and it certainly appears at the present time to be working that way . |
| 26 | ( c ) A growing belief that interest rates will rise from their current level . |
| 27 | There was also a growing belief that worship had a corporate dimension . |
| 28 | It also follows from Parsons 's argument that there is a general belief that stratification systems are just , right and proper , since they are basically an expression of shared values . |
| 29 | Indeed , it was in a mood of celebration rather than panic that the garotters were actually toasted for having ‘ taken upon themselves the duty of upsetting a whole fabric of amiable delusions ’ concerning the reformation of criminals , and further congratulated that through their ‘ inexcusable crime ’ they had made a salutary impact on public opinion and ‘ created a general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 30 | Most researchers have focused on Creole use in Britain as an adolescent phenomenon , and there seems to be a general belief that use of Creole is negligible or non-existent before the age of 14 or so . |