Example sentences of "[noun prp] believe [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Diderot believed that political rights belonged to property-owners , and Voltaire similarly identified " the people " with the middle class .
32 Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions .
33 Boss Lennie Lawrence believes that last season 's cup conflict was written in the stars .
34 Cairns-Smith believes that organic molecules were prominent among non-replicating ‘ tools ’ of his inorganic crystalline replicators .
35 Weber believes that social stratification results from a struggle for scarce resources in society .
36 If they last , Phillips believes that joint ventures may hold the answer and thinks that the new shareholders who will take stakes after the existing owners are forced to divest themselves of 51% of ITN could provide the answer .
37 British diplomats in Tokyo believed that increasing signs of restlessness could be perceived and that it would not be wise to delay a peace treaty for much longer .
38 As it is the ratepayer who funds and owns Council facilities , the DUP believes that any change to Sunday opening of Council provisions should only be undertaken following the test of the electorate 's opinion in a local poll held for that purpose in the district of the council .
39 Dr Nakamura believes that these changes happen within the lifetime of a magpie , suggesting that the birds may be improving their powers of discrimination through learning .
40 Despite not committing himself about specific grievances , Woolf believed that genuine injustice contributes to a lack of legitimacy which in turn makes disorder more likely .
41 The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender .
42 ‘ Kao Tzu believed that each man , at birth , was like a willow tree , and that righteousness was like a bowl .
43 The Edgsons believe that all houses are in a constant state of change , as they reflect the lives of their occupants .
44 Many people within those marvellous specialist services in London believe that attracting patients from around the country , and the money that will come with them as the reforms develop , will strengthen those outstanding services .
45 As Britain 's largest Third World child sponsorship charity , ActionAid believes that long-term help — with agriculture , education , healthcare and training programmes as well as savings and credit schemes — is the only way the world 's poor and their children will ever break free from crushing poverty and work towards a brighter future .
46 Charlton believes that European Champions Denmark are the most likely side to fill the other qualifying place in group three .
47 MacCormac believes that rural councils will allow more innovative designs to go through as more such houses are built in the cities .
48 The CPRE believes that enough land has already been provided for in the Structure Plans of the south east to meet these requirements and that there is in fact a 38 per cent over-supply of land .
49 Far from saying that these types of facility have no place in the countryside , the CPRE believes that sensitive planning is the key to stop development going out of control .
50 But they might find it difficult to take a back seat and Whitehall believes that criminal intelligence will evolve into a top detective agency with an operational arm .
51 But as she forecast in recent months ( The Art Newspaper No.19 , June 1992 , p.3 ) , Ms Radice believes that sexual content is grounds for a grant 's denial .
52 In general , Ollero believes that European countries have similar opportunities to the US for developing innovative software , and says that many important ideas have come from small companies .
53 Dr Tysoe believes that social attitudes are changing .
54 Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case .
55 Rachel believed that mechanistic science could explain all phenomena , even those of the heart and soul ; Rachel would never have forgiven her , the last place of safety and affection would have been taken away .
56 Like most of his friends , Clark believed that independent television ‘ would produce a cloaca maxima of rubbish ’ .
57 MITI believes that such exports should be of less concern to advocates of managed trade than consumer goods , because components increase the competitiveness — and therefore the export potential — of the industries that buy them .
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