Example sentences of "[adv] believe that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for example , although a miner might not personally believe that a university professor teaching three hours a week for 25 weeks of the year is doing a more worthy or important job than himself , he will nevertheless rank this occupation above his own in the construction of a prestige hierarchy because he has learnt that ‘ professors are more important than miners ’ . |
| 2 | Do we still believe that the sun goes round the earth ? |
| 3 | I , I do n't ever believe that the brochure should be taken in isolation |
| 4 | Her face was hurting badly where Duvall had hit her , and she could hardly believe that a dream could be so realistic . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This means that a management policy that is injurious to employee interests can be attacked only on the grounds that the directors lacked good faith , meaning that the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests , or that they have altogether disregarded the impact of their decision on the employees . |
| 7 | However , the position may be different if the party seeking to enforce the terms knows that the other has never had actual knowledge of them , since he can not then claim to reasonably believe that the other was agreeing to the terms . |
| 8 | One can not really believe that the whole of the world is going to go on maximizing production of agricultural produce , when — I much is already destined to end up as mountains of grain , or butter , or meat — or lakes of wine or olive oil . |
| 9 | Do you really believe that the performance appraisal system ( currently so fashionable ) is helping achieve profit ? |
| 10 | Does he really believe that the woman who spent an hour asking questions would have passively accepted everything a female consultant told her with no queries ? |
| 11 | Conservatives may well believe that the abuse of their authority by men is wrong , but that relationships in which one sex is in such a position that it could so abuse the other are in themselves wrong can not be admitted . |
| 12 | Some , who have experienced only the old-style rote learning of facts and dates , may well believe that the subject is already educationally bankrupt and will take a great deal of persuading that history is not only educationally solvent and viable but is vital to the balance and well-being of the curricular economy of the 1990s . |
| 13 | Thus , he argued , while we may well believe that the world is in fact designed by God , we can not prove it . |
| 14 | At the same time the actions of Theudebert and Chilperic , as well as those of the disloyal followers covered by the Treaty of Andelot , show that kings were expected to offer incentives , and we may well believe that the distribution of land and wealth was the major factor in ensuring that a king had a loyal following . |
| 15 | It was the first violent act , and she knew the sort of man who had perpetrated that act far too well to naively believe that the slaughtering of Suki would be the beginning and the end . |
| 16 | Conservatives do not essentially believe that the maleness of Christ in any way harms women . |
| 17 | He had told himself : ‘ I must never believe that a lie is the truth . |
| 18 | He may falsely believe that the difference between something 's looking blue and its looking grey can not be merely a perceived-as appearance difference , but that there must be a difference in the presentation appearance . |
| 19 | ‘ As far as I am concerned diving is not an excessive calorie-consuming sport , and certainly from the numbers of divers that I see who are overweight , I do not actually believe that the statement in ‘ The Great Diving Adventure ’ , by Horace Hobbs , is actually borne out . |
| 20 | No-one could seriously believe that the king had been a worshipper of the cult . |