Example sentences of "[pers pn] believe that [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because I believe that one of the basic assumptions of functionalism can be successfully illustrated , and alternatives to functionalism can be successfully confronted , by a careful examination of the effects of brain injury on face processing tasks . |
| 2 | I believe that one of the most moving aspects of seeing his work together will be an extraordinary sense of purpose which will have to be understood as carrying certain moral implications of the seriousness of his enterprise . |
| 3 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 4 | I believe that many of its recommendations deserve wider and deeper consideration , and I hope that the Government will take them on board . |
| 5 | Chair , on the recommendations erm on item D , I 'm a bit unhappy about the use of the term ‘ natural ’ disasters , because I believe that many of the disasters that people in Oxford are actually giving money for are man made disasters , particularly matters of international economics and the unfair burden , erm unfair distribution of wealth which places a whole sector of the world in poverty , and I think , you know , you do get a magnificent response from people in Oxford to these charities , and we must be aware that there are a whole number of greater issues involved , and while I hear what you 're saying earlier on about you ca n't take on the problems of the whole world , I think when people are actually giving money to charities for example , like Oxfam , they are often unaware of these issues , and we do have a wider role in making the , joining with organisations like Oxfam in spreading public awareness on these issues . |
| 6 | I believe that each of us has what I term a spirit ( but which I am quite happy for others to call the soul , the higher self , the inner self — or any of dozens of different names ) and that it is this spirit which has a journey to make through several lifetimes . |
| 7 | I can confirm that , of course , I made none of those statements , but I believe that each of them can be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 8 | I believe that millions of people in this country will acknowledge that there would be no choice for them if there were a Labour Government . |
| 9 | As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am . |
| 10 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 11 | I believe that most of the incidents that I have described will strike a chord with the vast majority of black people . |
| 12 | We believe that all of us , whatever our age , can learn something from one another for the good of the parish as a whole . |
| 13 | We believe that many of the arguments and circumstances discussed here were unknown by the authors of the editorial . |
| 14 | Editor , — We believe that some of the guidelines on the use of gentamicin in J K Aronson and D J M Reynolds 's article are potentially misleading . |
| 15 | If medical education is to respond to modern developments in health care , we believe that more of this sort of teaching will be required . |
| 16 | Erm and the reason we set this is that we are erm er the er , er we believe that this above average er growth in the in the , erm , er , earnings per share of the company is what shareh increases in shareholder value really depend on and er again to give an example erm , if you take the , the , the , the , the , the F T S E a hundred companies erm , and you do analyses of their er , growth rates and earnings per share you will find that the average growth rate was eleven and a half percent and ours er , was er , twenty , twenty percent so it 's above average remuneration erm , er , er , for above av for above average performance . |
| 17 | Are we to believe that all of this is due to shortage of investment ? |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't see how you can expect people to follow your lead , to trust you , to commit themselves to the business unless they believe that all of these things are dear to your heart . ’ |
| 19 | They believe that one of the most common cancers , liver cancer , could be largely prevented by a vaccine . |
| 20 | Some philosophers deny the possibility of any fundamental conflict between justice and fairness because they believe that one of these virtues in the end derives from the other : Some say that justice has no meaning apart from fairness , that in politics , as in roulette , whatever happens through fair procedures is just . |
| 21 | In this context , Greenpeace said it believed that some of the sprays were dangerous , and pointed out that they were banned in several countries . |
| 22 | He believed that hundreds of the " veiled women " demonstrating in the streets of Teheran in favour of an Islam Republic were actually militant Communists dressed up . |
| 23 | He believed that many of these slips revealed some kind of sexual subconscious which suddenly ‘ accidentally ’ is brought to the conscious . |
| 24 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 25 | He believes that one of his workers told Abba 's record company that he was secretly recording an Abba song with a group of soundalikes . |
| 26 | If he believes that many of those millions have even heard of the party , he will believe anything . |
| 27 | In fact , he believes that many of our ingenious musicians still have their aural-receptors pointed outwards and are merely trying to slavishly mimic what comes from England on the U.S. |