Example sentences of "[n mass] believe that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , some people believed that the drug had changed their lives immeasurably , that they had gained profound insights into the human condition , but , by and large , the major impact of LSD was cultural . |
| 2 | Certainly the majority of people believed that the USA was right to try to prevent a Communist take-over in South Vietnam . |
| 3 | These major disasters are compounded by the fact that those people believed that the NHS would make them better . |
| 4 | The eighteenth century is often referred to as the Age of Reason ; most people believed that the world that Newton and Locke had made was the real world . |
| 5 | Many people believe that the skin is an impervious covering , the sole function of which is to keep the blood and organs in and water out . |
| 6 | By this we do not Just mean that many people believe that the system is unjust . |
| 7 | Thus if people believe that the UK rate of interest will rise , they will also believe that the rate of exchange will appreciate , and they will want to hold larger speculative balances of sterling . |
| 8 | The more quickly people believe that the exchange rate will rise , the more they will want to hold sterling ( as money ) . |
| 9 | Conversely , if people believe that the exchange rate is likely to fall in the near future , they will economize on their holdings of sterling , preferring to hold their liquid assets in some other currency — the one most likely to appreciate against other currencies . |
| 10 | Now every opinion poll in er Britain for the last twenty two years has said that they believe that has shown that the people believe that the troops should not be in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Some people believe that the effect of the Zeitgeist is invariably to weaken moral fibre and signal the downfall of the nation . |
| 12 | Thus , for example , if people believe that the stock market is about to go through a period of ‘ boom ’ with share prices going up rapidly , they will switch some of their wealth into stocks and shares . |
| 13 | Many people believe that the condition of a horse 's coat depends on what you feed rather than how you groom , but whatever your views there is no doubt that as long as his feet are picked out and the parts where the tack touches are clean he will come to no harm . |
| 14 | Erm sixty six percent of people believe that the people you vote for say they 'll do things for you but once they 're in they forget what they 've said . |
| 15 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 16 | If people believe that the pound is likely to appreciate , they will want to hold sterling until it does appreciate . |
| 17 | ( d ) Which way will the L 2 curve shift if people believe that the pound is about to depreciate ? |
| 18 | Once people believe that the rate of interest will not go any lower , any further rise in money supply will have no effect on r . |
| 19 | In these circumstances it may be hard for other people to believe that the governors ' proceedings can be as fair as they should be . |
| 20 | The repeat of this metaphor emphasises the fact that the priest is leading people to believe that the church 's only duty is to get people to ‘ join its ranks ’ . |
| 21 | It is further suggested that in reporting the results of stability tests and the conclusions drawn from them , care should be taken to avoid any statement which would lead people to believe that the products have been proved to be ‘ stable ’ . |
| 22 | I y c Yes , debates in cabinet perhaps , but we 're not talking about debates in cabinet , we 're talking about speeches made at Blackpool or at fringe meetings of Blackpool , which lead people to believe that the government is moving substantially towards the right . |
| 23 | The involvement of the executive in the unreformed courts had led people to believe that the law was their enemy . |
| 24 | The staff believe that the course is unpopular because physical science is rarely taught in schools ; there is no longer , for example , a physical science A level . |
| 25 | Still , Dace believes that the recession now affecting Europe will result in no significant growth in turnover during 1993 . |
| 26 | Of those polled , 51% believe that the government is making too many concessions to Palestinians , 82% oppose the return of the deportees , 89% reject any change in the status of Jerusalem as Israel 's undivided capital , and 59% oppose what you constantly demand , that is , withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines with slight modifications . |
| 27 | The survey also revealed that people do not trust the advertising industry to regulate itself : 56% think it should not be left to its own devices and 66% believe that the Government should monitor advertising . |