Example sentences of "[adv] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 6 f. , 1980 , pp. 60–63 ) We do none the less believe that certain connections hold between cause and effect . |
| 2 | Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves . |
| 3 | The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records . |
| 4 | If they rank the checkerboard solution last in other circumstances , in the case of strict liability for manufacturers , for example , they nevertheless believe that internal compromise is wrong , though for reasons that yield when the substantive issue is very grave . |
| 5 | Writers of textbooks have a clear view of what they are trying to achieve , and , encouraged by their own success when developing the material , too easily believe that other teachers will use it in the same way when guided only by a well-written instruction , or even just the ‘ clear ’ implication of style in the material itself . |
| 6 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 7 | But while we know this , we must still believe that objective truth is obtainable ; or we must believe that it is 99 per cent obtainable ; or if we ca n't believe this we must believe that 43 per cent objective truth is better than 41 per cent . |
| 8 | In this study I have not attempted such quantitative analyses , but I still believe that good use can be made of a combination of the two approaches . |
| 9 | Many people still believe that English grammar is a fixed form , stable and unchanging , which obeys logical rules . |
| 10 | Although a homeowner myself , I have always believed that communal ownership on a small scale would solve many problems associated with terminal illness or permanent disablement . |
| 11 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 12 | He had mistakenly believed that total retirement from first-class cricket was necessary before he could avail himself of the pension fund for West Indies Test cricketers . |
| 13 | Juliana had mistakenly believed that large earrings and wide belts would just draw attention to her size ( being tall makes her feel big ) but , in fact , anything too small looks insipid and unnoticeable . |
| 14 | Ministers ostensibly believed that economic progress had been limited by control , regulation and over-taxation . |
| 15 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 16 | The Government still believes that nuclear power is the energy of the future that will keep the lights shining brightly and at low cost . |
| 17 | They fervently believed that social phenomena could be analysed with the methods of the natural sciences , which enjoyed great prestige in the last decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 19 | But he also believed that Christian apologetics needed to be explicated in order that their meaning could be made clearer to us . |
| 20 | Another important implication of behavioural rights such as these , is that if you believe in your own rights then , to be consistent , you must also believe that other people enjoy the same rights . |
| 21 | Er , certainly in , in the first paragraph we would say that we have drawn attention over the years to the nuisance of illegal parking erm , by travellers particularly in Stewards erm while travellers have the right to live their own lifestyle we also believe that other residents have the right to live free from that kind of nuisance and problem and that it does need to be addressed somehow . |
| 22 | They also believe that Labour authorities have for too long abused their position as chief low-cost housing providers allowing bureaucracy and waste to mushroom at the expense of tenants . |
| 23 | We also believe that encouraging minerals operators who want to extend their quarries to show how this ‘ would achieve an enhancement to the local landscape ’ , will make it much harder for planning authorities to refuse extensions where there are clearly no exceptional circumstances involved , just because landscape improvements are proposed . |
| 24 | We also believe that encouraging minerals operators who want to extend their quarries to show how this ‘ would achieve an enhancement to the local landscape ’ , will make it much harder for planning authorities to refuse extensions where there are clearly no exceptional circumstances involved , just because landscape improvements are proposed . |
| 25 | We also believe that new freedoms for scheme members will strengthen accountability and benefit investors . |
| 26 | We also believe that preliminary colectomy results in safer pouch surgery , because patients are no longer on steroid medication , are well nourished , and there is no co-existing sepsis . |
| 27 | We also believe that bad debts are a major issue for those leasing to the small and medium-sized customers . ’ |
| 28 | Fabians also believed that public welfare had a vital role to play in integrating society , alleviating social conflict and promoting the expression of altruistic sentiments countering , if partially , the atomism , selfishness and inequalities of capitalist market economies . |
| 29 | He clearly believes that one-day cricket is essentially junk cricket , and who could honestly disagree with him ? |
| 30 | Age Concern also believes that general practitioners should be able to provide information about their services , and that there should be increased health promotion and preventive screening provided by general practices . |