Example sentences of "[noun pl] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You encourage your readers to believe that one day their prince will come . ’ |
| 2 | THE ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND THE DESIGNERS BELIEVE THAT ALL STATEMENTS HEREIN ARE CORRECT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS AND CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS . |
| 3 | Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse . |
| 4 | Many City pundits believe that new debt to equity ratios indicate how confident companies are about investments . |
| 5 | The outer space committee of the United Nations believes that remote-sensing satellites with a resolution of 25 m could be militarily useful . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | But ministeres believe that custodial sentences would not provide a simple answer . |
| 8 | However hard a head or a governing body may try to remain outside the arena of competition , the insistence of parent interests and community awareness and the effect on even the price of houses in a local estate agent 's listings will continue to make sure that parents believe that clever children , as measured in the national assessment , are produced by good schools and by good teachers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Conservatives believe that high standards in education and training are the key to personal opportunity and national success . |
| 11 | Such a version of pluralism would assert that pluralists believe that all citizens have a chance to become politically active through individual and group action . |
| 12 | Mindful of recent events in Dakar , these officials believed that Allied interests would best be served by maintaining a working relationship with Vichy administrators . |
| 13 | Many officials believed that these disturbances were prompted by needless interference with traditional society . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Individuals believe that these outcomes have positive value for them ( valence ) . |
| 16 | Some economists believe that most exporters are unprofitable at an exchange rate with the dollar of ¥115 or higher . |
| 17 | Some economists believe that this kind of market mechanism is the most effective way of reducing pollution . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Until then the Greeks believed that recent events were unimportant compared with the exploits of the heroes in Trojan times . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | An announcement that a firm is increasing its dividends is a good signal because it suggests that the managers believe that future earnings will be sufficient to sustain the higher level of dividends . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Motor industry executives believe that many people held off buying until after the election because of uncertainty about higher tax bills if Labour took office . |
| 24 | The researchers believe that supramolecular structures such as micelles will prove particularly useful for the study of autopoietic phenomena because they allow extensive variation in structural organisation and can thus have a higher degree of functional complexity , for example being able to act as hosts to guest molecules , such as enzymes . |
| 25 | Around the world , many cultures believe that any harm done to a dolphin may cause ill-fortune or sickness . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Unfortunately some regulatory authorities believe that smaller dosages will increase the possibility of selecting for resistant pests ; the idea is that whereas large doses should kill everything stone dead , small doses allow marginally resistant individuals to survive and breed . |
| 28 | However , some experts believe that technical solutions are dealing only with the symptoms , not the causes of piracy . |
| 29 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 30 | But nurses of both sexes believe that male nurses receive more respect from doctors , according to James Hovey , a graduate nurse from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland , Ohio , who carried out the work . |