Example sentences of "[adv] believe that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R placed great emphasis on the Government 's efforts in education , perhaps believing that this approach would evoke a sympathetic response from its recently educated African readership . |
| 2 | Miliutin rightly believed that this practice gave rise to major administrative complications . |
| 3 | Some haematologists thus believe that all blood should be routinely filtered , and something like four million filters were used in the United States last year . |
| 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 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There are those who sincerely believe that this portion of scripture with wise men , virgin birth and a star has the authentic stamp of history upon it . |
| 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 | I still believe that one day humanity will bow down before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed , and non-violent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land . |
| 10 | Many people still believe that English grammar is a fixed form , stable and unchanging , which obeys logical rules . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like Marx , the first generation of communists after 1917 still believed that this process of relentless industrialization would speed the emergence of a society without want or privilege , based on the maxim , ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his needs . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ministers ostensibly believed that economic progress had been limited by control , regulation and over-taxation . |
| 15 | The Government still believes that nuclear power is the energy of the future that will keep the lights shining brightly and at low cost . |
| 16 | They also believe that any man who is honest , truthful , and good can serve his King and country . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We also believe that this project will serve as a model for the evaluation of other community genetic interventions , with its emphasis on offering optional tests based on informed consent and the education of primary health care teams . |
| 19 | Suppose we honestly believe that some treatment is unlikely to bring us a benefit that makes worthwhile the pain or distress involved , we have every right to refuse it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He clearly believes that one-day cricket is essentially junk cricket , and who could honestly disagree with him ? |
| 22 | However , King also believes that traditional agroforestry led to the establishment of plantation forestry because of colonial timber requirements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that culminated in the separation of agricultural and forestry interests . |
| 23 | The NRA assessment also believes that increased monitoring , providing more accurate information , has led to some stretches of water being downgraded even though they are probably no worse than ten years ago . |
| 24 | Does Mr Baker really believe that such dishonesty and repression provide a ‘ strong family background ’ ? |
| 25 | Because the analysis of unstained AD tissue using the sensitive techniques of nuclear microscopy does not indicate increased levels of aluminium in neuritic plaque cores , we now believe that previous evidence that aluminium is involved in the aetiology of Alzheimer 's disease should be reviewed to take into account the probable contamination of tissue by alumino- silicates present in most reagents . |
| 26 | Though he 'd never really believed that any woman would behave that coldly and that violently in response to an attack . |
| 27 | Marshall now believes that new research in Canada proves that ballooning is a less serious problem , however . |
| 28 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 29 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 30 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |