Example sentences of "[art] [adj] belief that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this , of course , is to be confused with the idea that all of the causal laws of science , or even many , are in the given way analogues in form of the ordinary belief that a particular causal circumstance necessitated a particular effect . |
| 2 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 3 | Therefore , if a bookmaker pays out money in the mistaken belief that a certain horse has won , s.5(4) is inappropriate . |
| 4 | And they have led them under the false belief that a negotiated solution was seriously pursued . |
| 5 | It is based on the agreed belief that a regular count of several basic demographic factors is vital for an understanding of the structure of our society , and at each census it is customary to ask certain specific questions which deal with current matters of special importance . |
| 6 | The score being assigned by the syntax analyser is the syntactic belief that a word belongs in the input . |
| 7 | The crude belief that a service economy is nothing more than McDonald 's writ large is correctly dismantled . |
| 8 | The Christian belief that a house of God should be open to everyone precludes the Church from cashing in on some of its most beautiful assets . |
| 9 | A large part of the interest in nonlinear dynamics arises from its applications : there is a strong belief that an understanding of the patterns of bifurcations in dynamical systems provides a means of understanding natural phenomena . |
| 10 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 11 | A growing belief that a devaluation is inevitable has led to a damaging flight of capital out of the CFA zone . |
| 12 | It was noted that the Phnom Penh regime 's refusal to compromise over the issue of Khmer Rouge involvement in a future Cambodian government derived from a growing belief that a shift in international opinion was under way . |