Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hierarchical reductionist believes that carburettors are explained in terms of smaller units which are explained in terms of smaller units … , which are ultimately explained in terms of the smallest of fundamental particles . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend believe that interest rates should be reduced by 0.5 per cent . |
| 3 | of foreign firms believed that Britain 's industrial relations improved significantly in the 1980s . |
| 4 | One in five British GPs believes that homeopathy is better than Western medicine . |
| 5 | On the contrary , many in the popular movement believe that Fatah has more interest , as one activist put it , in hospitals than in mobile health clinics , in bureaucracy than in local control , and in co-operation with the economic and political notables than with grass-roots movements . |
| 6 | Again , like egalitarian feminists , woman-centred feminists believe that subjectivity is an important part of gender relations . |
| 7 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 8 | If Roman Catholics believe that abortion is always wrong and contrary to God 's law , there is no compromise they can be offered , or which they can accept , which will satisfy their principles . |
| 9 | The early testers believed that tests would open doors to disadvantaged people , not close them . |
| 10 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 11 | Liberal Democrats believe that unemployment is a key issue which must be tackled head on , and I am glad of the opportunity to address the issue presented by this debate . |
| 12 | There is also an increasing awareness amongst neo-Marxists that the failure of state socialist regimes ' consumer markets and productivity rates to compare favourably with Western capitalism gives workers in capitalist society little reason to believe that socialism will improve their material prosperity . |
| 13 | Some Tory MPs believe that Mr Lamont may decide to step down in the face of the unrelenting doubts about his future at the Treasury . |
| 14 | The styles and values of both employees and managers currently support a job design philosophy that has its roots in work study and industrial engineering practice , and it flies in the face of conventional wisdom to believe that jobs can actually be designed rather than simply be the result of technologically determined requirements . |
| 15 | There is strong evidence to believe that Bamford was representative in another respect : their first child was present at the wedding . |
| 16 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 17 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 18 | And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded . |
| 19 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints . |
| 21 | But in this respect too there is good reason to believe that things have recently begun to go seriously wrong : |
| 22 | Unless the applicant for service has good reason to believe that service by simple delivery will be accepted , he should supply a translation , for there is otherwise a risk of delay while the Central Authority reports that that mode of delivery has failed and requests a translation of the document . |
| 23 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister believes that employers should provide it or that women should be able to afford it . |
| 25 | Does the Prime Minister believe that pensioners were paid too much in 1979 , or will he express regret at that meanness and raise pensions in line with Labour 's plans ? |
| 26 | Firstly as you have probably already gathered , we have to satisfy you that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Lawrence was in the flat , the plaintiff 's flat . |
| 27 | There is a tendency for more junior staff to believe that reports should be made public and that the next report should again deal with the whole school rather than some part or aspect only . |
| 28 | Thus in general , Solihull secondary teachers believe that staff would be more honest if names were kept off the response sheets ; that the scheme focuses on weaknesses rather than strengths and that generalizing about schools as a whole is difficult . |
| 29 | French cosmetic scientists believe that water retention and toxic wastes build up in pockets of fat on the hips and bottom . |
| 30 | Some linguistic scholars believe that language shapes thought , rather than vice versa . |