Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There is no evidence to believe that this would be so . |
| 3 | Section 4(1) provides that the offence is committed if the defendants act with intent to cause a person to believe that immediate unlawful violence is about to be used , or with intent to provoke such unlawful violence . |
| 4 | Applying what was explained there , it may be said that a person intends to cause a person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him when he ( the person uttering the threats , etc. , ) either desires to cause such an effect , or when he realises what impact his conduct is almost certain to have and nevertheless persists with it . |
| 5 | Thus although much has been achieved , it would be a mistake to believe that most of the problems have been solved . |
| 6 | If Steen had been murdered ( and he had no cause to believe that that was the case ) , then it was something to do with the Sweets and the blackmailing business . |
| 7 | It was not an act of war and I have no reason to believe that one of your countrymen was responsible . |
| 8 | There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well . |
| 9 | In the opinion of Melanie Clore there is no reason to believe that such prices could not be repeated at the present time . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | But addiction to chemicals is clearly real , and there seems no reason to believe that compulsive chemical-taking is necessarily in a different class from other acquired compulsive habits . |
| 12 | It said : ‘ If it becomes known that UK companies have supplied equipment for manufacture of munitions we could truthfully say that when the licences were issued we had no reason to believe that this civilian equipment was for other than general industrial purposes . ’ |
| 13 | There is no reason to believe that this was not true also of the world 's earliest volcanoes . |
| 14 | While I have no reason to believe that this was the case in respect of Wilson , or indeed any senior member of the Labour Party , I can understand why such a person would be reluctant to try to abort the inquiry . |
| 15 | The results have been called into question because plasma lipid assays raised the possibility that placebo and active treatments had been intermixed , but Bamford et al have no reason to believe that this occurred ( personal communication ) . |
| 16 | If it is to work effectively it will require the good will of Mr , who , in all discussion today has shown a most responsible attitude and I have no reason to believe that this will not continue . |
| 17 | Without its support we still have no reason to believe that any agreement will be reached behind the veil of ignorance . |
| 18 | Secondly , there is no reason to believe that any computerised system for storing data on ‘ opting in ’ would be effective or practical . |
| 19 | For if we have no reason to believe that any more of the debts will be paid during the intervals of peace , than have hitherto been : Nay the whole of the Sinking Fund , by such an increased debt , becoming absolutely anticipated , together with numbers of additional oppressive taxes , we have less reason to expect any of the old debts to be discharged , as we go on contracting of new . |
| 20 | After the war the military organised a big cleanup in the forest — and the ministry of defence says there 's no reason to believe that any buried weapons still remain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nevertheless there is every reason to believe that some control applied at various stages of industrial exploitation could benefit the trade on a global scale . |
| 23 | ‘ I have every reason to believe that this is a first rate study ’ , says , AIDS director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ) . |
| 24 | There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell . |
| 25 | He did that because they had not only annoying his neighbours , sorry , their neighbours , because he had once been one of our neighbours , but also they had damaged his house , and they had already cost him probably about two hundred pounds in repair bills until the house itself , broken doors , window erm the wall , and bit of the roof and so on , and there was every reason to believe that this would just carry on . |
| 26 | 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 . |