Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of foreign firms believed that Britain 's industrial relations improved significantly in the 1980s . |
| 2 | One in five British GPs believes that homeopathy is better than Western medicine . |
| 3 | Again , like egalitarian feminists , woman-centred feminists believe that subjectivity is an important part of gender relations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The early testers believed that tests would open doors to disadvantaged people , not close them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | French cosmetic scientists believe that water retention and toxic wastes build up in pockets of fat on the hips and bottom . |
| 14 | Some linguistic scholars believe that language shapes thought , rather than vice versa . |
| 15 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 16 | ‘ British and American experts believe that Libya 's involvement in the Lockerbie disaster was only tangential , ’ she wrote . |
| 17 | ORTHODOX economists believe that governments can wipe out accelerating inflation only by balancing their budgets and sharply reducing the monetary growth . |
| 18 | Yet European and American rivals believe that Japan 's casino helped its industry become more competitive rather than harming it . |
| 19 | Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling . |
| 20 | Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose . |
| 21 | Some western experts believe that Russia has never properly counted the exact amount of nuclear material it possesses . |
| 22 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 23 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 24 | Thai women believe that walking under an elephant will increase their fertility , and are paying 10 baht a time for the privilege . |