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

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1 Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election .
2 Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased .
3 I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time .
4 I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom .
5 argument because the real reason for opposing the new clause is that the Government do not believe that private sector operations should be reviewed by any consumer body or consultative committee .
6 Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ?
7 I do not believe that British Rail has got it right .
8 Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose .
9 But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent .
10 In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it .
11 Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for .
12 on many occasions to the excellent work done by and the section eleven team , but we do not believe that any area is entitled to automatic exemption .
13 However , while ‘ [ t ] he Administration does not believe that any city is condemned to inevitable decline ’ ( US Department of Housing and Urban Development 1984 , p27 ) , the emphasis on comparative advantage and entrepreneurialism carried an inevitable warning .
14 Suffice to say that I do not believe that human activity can be explained from or reduced to the ecological level .
15 As it will have become clear , I do not believe that this vehicle is tenable .
16 We do not believe that this kind of analysis can be politically or morally neutral — and nor should it , for our understanding of the situation is that the penal system is morally indefensible and is in dire need of a programme of radical reform which will inevitably be highly political .
17 She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real .
18 I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition .
19 Environmentalists do not believe that this phase-out is fast enough .
20 For those whose overheads are modest ( and for those who add an extra sum for secretarial , postage , or other expenses ) , I do not believe that either rate is sustainable in terms of a client 's ability to afford it or the likelihood of its recovery by the successful litigant at the conclusion of a case .
21 Reasonable women , of course , do not believe that sexual intercourse is a cure for fits or a treatment for breathing which will improve the voice .
22 The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) .
23 I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe .
24 While he could understand the ‘ natural anger and grief ’ of the child 's parents , he did not believe that medical negligence was a factor in Stephen 's death .
25 He does n't believe that extra money motivates , whether that money be a bonus , profit sharing or a salary increase .
26 But you clearly do n't believe that that statement , the the Reynolds Major statement goes far enough .
27 She had the Midwestern accent that is usually called ‘ flat ’ because the Midwest does n't believe that emotional emphasis makes the corn grow taller .
28 Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time .
29 Friends of mine who read SHE ca n't believe that this man who is so outrageous on the page is so quiet in real life .
30 I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past .
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