Example sentences of "['s] belief that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group leader 's belief that all members have expressed views and that the decision is a consensus of divergent views . |
| 2 | In contrast , Edwin Land 's belief that other people in the organization should have the same rich , varied job as himself , the fact that he used similar symbols to describe his products , his organization , and his own life ( as we shall describe in greater detail below ) enabled stakeholders to trust him . |
| 3 | For example , Althusser 's belief that new theories are the fruit of epistemological breaks or ‘ ruptures ’ with what went before is fraught with difficulty . |
| 4 | Paton shared Smith 's belief that young people should be kept under the influence of the Church and that they required discipline and order . |
| 5 | The title of the Department reflects the University 's belief that higher education is not the prerogative of the undergraduate but of all who retain an interest in learning , whether at a highly professional or purely recreational level . |
| 6 | Tillyard 's belief that Elizabethan literature could provide an encouragement in countering a threat to civilisation may now seem naive and intellectually misplaced , but within the context of its origins it is not something we should immediately deride . |
| 7 | The guidelines include a list of entry qualifications which for the most part are similar to those granting entry to the Council 's teacher-training courses for would-be school teachers ; in that respect , they do not accord with NATFHE 's belief that formal entry requirements are less important than the achievement of terminal standards . |
| 8 | The idea of the separation of powers also seems to influence Dicey 's belief that Parliamentary sovereignty favours the supremacy of law . |
| 9 | The dubious part of the claim lies in Moore 's belief that beautiful objects with their beauty and the qualities which make them beautiful , could exist without any consciousness of them . |
| 10 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 11 | Several US journalists decided to sue the US government for infringing their liberties , claiming that the restrictions reflected more the military 's belief that free reporting during the Vietnam war had turned US citizens against the war , than concern for security . |