Example sentences of "[not/n't] believe that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable .
2 He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach .
3 As I have said before , I do not believe that a Labour Government would have embarked on any of this .
4 Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives .
5 I do not believe that a Conservative government would have aroused hostility at that pitch , but the difference between a Tory government and a Labour government was that the latter threatened , or was thought to threaten , the money and positions of the rich — a threat which moved the rich to unreasoning hostility .
6 I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants .
7 I do not believe that the genuine asylum seeker will be treated fairly .
8 So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 .
9 The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . "
10 The Royal Commission did not believe that the existing local authorities were in a position to meet the challenges they had identified .
11 To put this differently and more technically , I do not believe that the causal nexus of history , or that of nature , could be broken .
12 I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken .
13 And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time .
14 The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family .
15 Do not denigrate our streets as terrible after just one day in Birmingham ; do not believe that the only person you will find reading a book will be a ‘ broken winged angel ’ guarding a tomb in the city centre !
16 If war broke out he did not believe that the Soviet Union would mount a localised attack on Japan .
17 I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police .
18 We do not believe that the anti-neutrophil antibody in PSC is similar to that found in Wegener 's granulomatosis for three reasons .
19 We do not believe that the mental element can be substantiated by simply showing an intent to apply force and no more . "
20 C. Wright Mills saw professionals as increasingly becoming the servants of the rich and powerful , but he did not believe that the individual professionals themselves were losing their power and influence .
21 I do not believe that the current management at British Rail is capable of building the project , although I believe that it needs building .
22 On the general point , I do not believe that the substantial improvement in productivity has arisen through a reduction in the number of disabled people in the mines .
23 Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players .
24 I equally do not believe that the All England Club is going to sign a contract to create a completely new club in Basingstoke tomorrow morning .
25 She did not believe that the wicked could be caught by ten-year-old children and returned to the police station in exchange for a pony , any more than she believed that constant hot water would make young mothers smile constantly with relief and proud love .
26 In this Marx was similar to many of his contemporaries , such as Spencer or Comte , but he was also very different from them , for he did not believe that the same laws apply to biological evolution as apply to human societies .
27 Tal Goff L.J. , while accepting that the distinction between jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional error of law was obsolete , did not believe that the Anisminic principle should apply ‘ with full force ’ to every inferior court , and emphasised that the reviewing court should not intervene ‘ merely because some error of law has been committed during an inquest . ’
28 My colleagues and I do not believe that the British people will be fooled a second time — one can take a horse to water but one can not make it drink .
29 I do not believe that the British public are prepared to move to a property tax .
30 I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman correctly states the law .
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