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

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1 In addition to these informal clinical observations , there are several other , more scientific , reasons for believing that schizophrenia and affective psychosis are not as distinct from each other as was once thought .
2 One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches .
3 The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind .
4 It must fit our practice , and we have discovered important reasons for believing that conventionalism does not .
5 There are good family economic reasons for believing that fertility will not become high .
6 While the evidence is not conclusive , there are therefore some grounds for believing that trusts for performance would be enforced directly and in specie .
7 The presumption is that the suspect will be released with or without bail , but it can be rebutted if the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that detention without charge is necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to the offence for which the suspect has been arrested , or to obtain such evidence by questioning him ( s.37(2) ) .
8 Ironically , the evidence provided by Cartesian vivisectors , who had already demonstrated the anatomical and physiological similarities between humans and non-humans , gave Bentham and his followers sufficient grounds for believing that animals could indeed experience pain and pleasure ( Serpell , 1986 ; Ryder , 1989 ) .
9 This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true .
10 ( c ) That the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that arrest is necessary to prevent the relevant person : ( i ) causing physical harm to himself or another ; ( ii ) suffering physical injury ; ( iii ) causing loss or damage to property ; ( iv ) committing an offence against public decency ; ( v ) causing an unlawful obstruction of the highway .
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