Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if I 'd believed that story when you told it to me , I certainly would n't believe it now . |
| 2 | Every Member I interviewed believed that television had increased public interest in Parliament and most thought it had improved public understanding of how the Commons works , It is even more important , however , that the House should be televised so that the public can follow the actual matters being debated in Parliament . |
| 3 | He quoted a letter in which Phillips says ‘ I continue to believe that Mike Edwards bent a key in my hand without ever touching it . ’ |
| 4 | The reason why I continue to believe that Heseltine 's best chance of getting the Tory leadership lies in the aftermath of an election defeat has nothing to do with inside knowledge . |
| 5 | ‘ I do believe that girl 's beginning to grow up , ’ observed Brian , reaching for the jam as Camille left for the streets . |
| 6 | Ultimately I do believe that life is priceless and a great joy and that view is bound to seep through into my work . |
| 7 | On the other hand , I do believe that English speaking referees who are exposed exclusively to the opinions of a mischievous English press are likely to be adversely influenced . |
| 8 | But I do believe that Nick Serota and the Tate chairman Dennis Stevenson have the sense of purpose and the energy to make it happen . |
| 9 | But I do believe that women experience another , relentless denial of their powers , which begins as soon as they can speak , if not before , and makes the act of writing for them primarily an act of rebellion . |
| 10 | Now , I 've seen both sides and I do believe that Blackburn are going to present the bigger problem . |
| 11 | I remember the wedding and I do believe that Mr Foster was a bit younger than she , but he was a very sincere and deeply caring person . |
| 12 | No , I do believe that Mr 's report is coming to the March property er , sub-committee and then it will be the subsequent meeting of the policy and resources committee which will be at the end of March . |
| 13 | However , this is clearly not what is going on in anorexia nervosa , although I do believe that emptiness is being used as a metaphor . |
| 14 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
| 15 | But as she began to believe that men could be gentle , caring and sensitive , such men appeared as if by magic ! |
| 16 | As long as she had believed that Jake had no suspicion of what type of woman Janice really was , she had been able to forgive his cynical marriage . |
| 17 | She had deluded herself ; she had believed that innocence of spirit and a devout purpose were adequate guides through this treacherous domain , but the facts were clear enough now : she had diminished mystery to pious platitude , and some devious element at work in the deeps of her imagination was scorning her efforts even as she made them … |
| 18 | You had to believe that Madeleine told the truth . |
| 19 | The sufferer 's disease gets back into " the driving seat " and he or she comes to believe that life can be managed alone and that is questionable , despite all previous evidence , whether he or she truly has addictive disease after all . |
| 20 | It 's still a very small market , but we do believe that consumers want meat produced in an environmentally sensitive and natural way . |
| 21 | We have believed that God wishes us to struggle along , barely able to pay our way , and certainly does n't want us to have any fun with our money ! |
| 22 | In some instances , management have done this because they have believed that de-skilling is a counter-productive strategy in that it lowers morale , commitment , motivation , and optimum use of human resources . |
| 23 | He chooses to believe that Hilary practically badgered her into her grave . |
| 24 | His three cricketing sons became committed Christians while still at Eton but after his father 's death C. T. lost his fervour , until January 1884 , after he had believed that G. B. was dying . |
| 25 | What the diffident schoolboy has lost is the confidence that his beliefs are tracking the truth ; he takes it that , although he does believe that p , it is at least as probable that he is wrong as that he is right . |
| 26 | The Trust is not an anglers ' or owners ' association and takes no side in the arguments between the supporters or sporting and commercial fishing , but it does believe that salmon should be taken only in their rivers of origin or their estuaries so that the total level of fishing effort can be controlled in order to ensure that enough fish reach the spawning sites to maintain stocks naturally . |
| 27 | I argued , I fought , but he wanted to believe that happiness was impossible ; it gave him some strange consolation . |
| 28 | It 's believed that Sandra moved to either Newark or Leicester . |