Example sentences of "[noun pl] believe [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You encourage your readers to believe that one day their prince will come . ’ |
| 2 | Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse . |
| 3 | Many City pundits believe that new debt to equity ratios indicate how confident companies are about investments . |
| 4 | Reformers believed that one way of preventing these marriages was to provide clubs with attractive and organized recreational facilities in the hope that ‘ the girl who has her clubs will not need the idle companionship of lads ’ . |
| 5 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 6 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 7 | Some economists believe that this kind of market mechanism is the most effective way of reducing pollution . |
| 8 | Many observers believe that this outcome would not have happened if BA had not been privatised as such a dominant carrier in the UK , but others argue that this claim is irrelevant and that world competition is what matters ; BA and BCal were both relatively small on the world stage , but might have been able to compete effectively in a merged form . |
| 9 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |
| 10 | It would be a contradictory state of affairs to believe that higher education could maintain one kind of culture within itself and could underpin a quite different kind of culture within society at large : there could not be any fundamental incongruity between these two cultural functions of higher education . |
| 11 | Around the world , many cultures believe that any harm done to a dolphin may cause ill-fortune or sickness . |
| 12 | Hong Kong authorities believe that most boat people will acquiesce rather than violently resist attempts to send them back to Vietnam , but this apparent passivity can be deceptive . |
| 13 | Surprisingly , the respondents believed that independent R&D efforts were the most effective means of learning about rival firms ' technology ( although licensing was also regarded as an effective learning mechanism ) . |
| 14 | Despite a range of domestic environmental controls introduced under the auspices of the state Environment Agency over the past 20 years , critics believe that industrial success and economic growth continue to take precedence over concerns such as imports of tropical timber , the use of controversial drift-nets by Japanese fishing fleets , and continuing industrial pollution of land and sea . |
| 15 | Regional terminals will also be developed although many critics believe that British Rail 's plans in this area are over-cautious . |
| 16 | The attempt was inspired by the work of the Logical Positivists in the 1930s , notably Rudolph Carnap , Carl Hempel , and Ernest Nagel , and prompted very many social scientists to believe that scientific method could be boldly distilled in diagrams like Figure 3.1 . |
| 17 | Many scholars believe that this interpretation is not original and was not given by Jesus . |
| 18 | Some scholars believe that this story is more theological than historical . |
| 19 | Many scholars believe that this miracle has the same root as the calming of the storm . |
| 20 | SCIENTISTS believe that cancer-causing radon gas may be a health risk in 3,000 homes in Wales responsible for 110 lung cancer deaths a year . |
| 21 | We see here a tendency to equate any change with ‘ reductionism ’ , whereas those who want to see women ordained as priests believe that this change will bring about an enrichment of the traditional pattern of ministry , without in any way altering its essential features . |
| 22 | But many environmentalists believe that that argument is simply a red herring . |
| 23 | Others believe that explicit teaching or learning of language structure is unnecessary . |
| 24 | Others believe that light jogging is superior because it stimulates blood flow to the legs , reduces muscle tightness and preserves fitness , says |
| 25 | The government has introduced new restrictions on the use of national park land in the event of privatisation but Opposition , and some Conservative , MPs believe that tougher planning controls are needed to enable the national park authorities to block damaging development . |
| 26 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe that priceless information about the past has been lost in the severe storms which battered Orkney earlier this year . |