Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One in five British GPs believes that homeopathy is better than Western medicine .
2 Again , like egalitarian feminists , woman-centred feminists believe that subjectivity is an important part of gender relations .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 French cosmetic scientists believe that water retention and toxic wastes build up in pockets of fat on the hips and bottom .
8 Some linguistic scholars believe that language shapes thought , rather than vice versa .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Thai women believe that walking under an elephant will increase their fertility , and are paying 10 baht a time for the privilege .
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