Example sentences of "[adj] believe that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be wrong to believe that the body clock develops only in response to a rhythmic environment and the effect upon the sleep/wake and feeding rhythms that this produces . |
| 2 | And it was easy to believe that the evidence for test-tube fusion was fairly solid , good enough that it would be only a matter of time before it was proven definitively , especially with the BYU people already claiming to have some independent evidence . |
| 3 | At first it is easy to believe that the child is engaged in an equal dialogue with a machine intelligence , so apposite are some of the replies . |
| 4 | I find it impossible to believe that the Director would contemplate sending an official to interview a defendant during his trial , even if there were anything to be gained from such a course , which is hard to see , given that his answers would not be admissible . |
| 5 | Only the dwindling band of loyal Conservative voters was likely to believe that the increase in charges compared with the rates was the responsibility of profligate local authorities . |
| 6 | It is the person towards whom the words or conduct are directed — an actual rather than a hypothetical person — who must be likely to believe that the violence will be used , either against himself or another . |
| 7 | As ever , the people who will suffer from Labour 's failure are among those who are furthest removed from the political process ; who are most likely to believe that the outcome of the election has little to do with them ; and , hence , who are least likely to be taking part in the election postmortem on why Labour lost . |
| 8 | The light greens by and large believe that the system of which we are all a part is perfectible , that it could be reformed in such a way as to create a sustainable , environmentally friendly way of living . |
| 9 | It is hard to believe that the success of a Medau Teacher Training Course ( and therefore our regional development ) should have to depend on the proceeds of a raffle , but that 's just how it was in the late '60s in MANCHESTER . |
| 10 | It was still hard to believe that the pod was not going to be destroyed before it reached the ground . |
| 11 | With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks . |
| 12 | It 's hard to believe that the man who used to play the bass in a sullen and studenty pop group called The Housemartins is the creator of this year 's most significant number one single , but the success of ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is a sing that things have truly changed for the better . |
| 13 | Many theologians find it hard to believe that the gospel which is called Matthew 's gospel was written by the apostle . |
| 14 | Rent 's supposed allies appear little more than an improbable amalgam of all those who might be opposed to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella , and it is hard to believe that the conspiracy had such wide-ranging support . |
| 15 | Now , even those who sincerely hate capitalism find it hard to believe that the example of the third world will save us all . |
| 16 | I find it hard to believe that the answer lies in reciprocity or disguised selfishness in any simple sense . |
| 17 | Yet it was hard to believe that the explanation for all this was that a schoolboy was in the hands of devils . |
| 18 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 19 | Discerning Greeks like Thucydides ( i. 10 ) knew that the relative splendour of the physical remains of Sparta and Athens was no index of their real strengths : suppose , he says , that the city of Sparta were to become deserted , future generations would find it hard to believe that the place , an old-fashioned , higgledy-piggledy collection of villages , was really as powerful as it was represented to be ; whereas if the same were to happen to Athens , one would think that she was twice as powerful as she really was . |
| 20 | Even then , it seems reasonable to believe that the number of beneficiaries of such spillovers is limited . |
| 21 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 22 | It was possible to believe that the sale and all the unpleasantness which had followed it had never taken place . |
| 23 | The Chinese believe that the clavicle , a small bone embedded in the shoulder muscle , is a protection against evil . |
| 24 | Omega producer TTI Ltd believes that the package can be tailored to produce a computerised accounting solution which is an ‘ exact copy ’ of an existing manual system , offering some of the advantages of a ‘ bespoke ’ solution at a fraction of the cost . |
| 25 | It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime . |
| 26 | Soviet specialists argue that the Vietnamese believe that the insistence on neutralisation in the ASEAN Zone proposal is intended to isolate Vietnam , since it could not obtain sufficient guarantees against being isolated as a participant in a neutral zone . |
| 27 | This large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structures on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical spiral galaxy . |
| 28 | It is difficult to believe that the idea was successful . |
| 29 | IN MRS Barrass ' description of ‘ hunting horror ’ ( HAS Jan 29 ) it is difficult to believe that the couple running up and down egging on the hounds ( not dogs , please ) were real hunt supporters . |
| 30 | To cite the now familiar evidence of mosaics from ( soil it is difficult to believe that the mosaic which features Bacchus in a square central panel amid an arrangement of saltires and interlaced squares ( Parlasca 1959 , pI . |