Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] believe [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twitty , who was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins , has had more than 40 Country and Western hits , including the No.1 success , It 's Only Make Believe and Mona Lisa . |
| 2 | They could only have believed that tanks had eternal lives . |
| 3 | Conservative Members desperately want to believe that family breakdown is the cause , but the increase in family breakdowns is much smaller than the dramatic increase in homelessness . |
| 4 | As the weeks passed she finally began to believe that Penry Vaughan meant what he said , that their relationship was important enough to him to nurture with delicacy and care . |
| 5 | Moreover , it stands in dazzling contrast to the sombre pessimism of most novels by white writers who seem to suffer what Alice Walker herself defines as a debilitating sense of ‘ cosmic guilt ’ and who have largely ceased to believe that literature can actually do anything . |
| 6 | This was partly because they were unsure about the outcome , partly because they were not able to segment the market with precision , and partly because the account executives in their advertising agencies , in common with many media directors , still appear to believe that prosperity is equated with youth . |
| 7 | People have always needed to believe that individuals make films . |
| 8 | Can I , for the benefit of members opposite who , who always seem to believe that people on this side of the chamber are townies and do n't know anything about anything other than street lighting for the benefit of members opposite and for the public gallery outside , can I say that in my younger days , a million years ago , I rode with hunt . |
| 9 | Who would ever have believed that Lucille , Vicomtesse de Seleglise and widow of Colonel Xavier Castineau , would be mother to a half-English bastard ? |
| 10 | Wodehouse translated into Italian ; and not even someone as ignorant as I was could possibly have believed that Wodehouse 's England was the England I would find . |
| 11 | Deckard , somewhat sentimentally , interprets this as a magnanimous gesture indicating reverence for life , since he by now wants to believe that replicants are as good as ( in practice , better than ) actual humans . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 'm really expected to believe that Donal , of his own bat , sent me to Wexford to meet you , knowing you were about to seek out my family , just to be friendly ? |
| 13 | Most of them really came to believe that Rhodesia had excellent race relations and that the war was perpetrated by ‘ communist-trained hand -inspired murdering scum ’ . |
| 14 | The counselling and procuring provisions are contained in s.1(7) and stipulate that it is an offence for , inter alios , any of the above mentioned insiders to counsel or procure any other person ( ie not only individuals ) to deal in the relevant securities , if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that person would deal in them on a recognized exchange . |
| 15 | Unreasonable refusal of access to a child in the course of inquiries is in itself a ground for making an emergency protection order where the applicant has reasonable cause to believe that access is required as a matter of urgency ( s44(1) ( b ) and see p149 ) . |
| 16 | He may really have believed that Poles were running the Hungarian rebellion and could carry disaffection north of the Carpathians . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd have to be obtuse to do so , ’ she flung at him , then changed the subject abruptly by saying , ‘ I really do believe that Ling is a wise man . ’ |
| 18 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 19 | He really did believe that money was all she cared about ! |
| 20 | The Government really does believe that tenants have fallen victim to what William Waldegrave , who ceased to be Minister of Housing halfway through the Bill , called the dread drug of dependency . |
| 21 | We obstinately continue to believe that people from the education authority should be on the boards because that will allow collaboration . |
| 22 | She had even begun to believe that Nora would understand this grand passion . |
| 23 | Yet like many in the Grand Army , Thiercelin was sometimes tempted to believe that Napoleon Bonaparte was not quite as other men . |
| 24 | But Joyce has never stopped believing that peace will come to the grim back streets of Belfast . |
| 25 | It seems odd that the coal pfennig has been given the green light by Brussels when we have been continually led to believe that state aid for our coal industry would not be allowed . |