Example sentences of "not believe that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it .
2 We do not believe that the United Kingdom should import any toxic and hazardous waste .
3 I do not believe that the Commissioners justified their proposal to raise the ceiling .
4 The majority in the community from which I come would welcome internment at this time , and I can not believe that the integrity of the Roman Catholic community is such that its members would choose this continued slaughter in our Province in preference to removing from the streets those who command and control the violence that besets us .
5 We did not believe that the issue should have come within that particular article .
6 I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed .
7 I do not believe that the uniqueness which Christians attribute to Christ is possible .
8 I do not believe that the PSBR can be financed .
9 Helen Gardner , for many years an Oxford luminary , did not believe that the purpose of ‘ English ’ was to turn out critics , any more than it was to produce poets and novelists .
10 Ambassador Bonsal states , ‘ I do not believe that the Russians would have taken sugar from Cuba which the United States was prepared to purchase .
11 He simply could not believe that the Creator had done separate miracles in order to provide each of these insignificant islands with its own species of finch or mocking-bird .
12 In answer to the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central ( Mr. Darling ) , I do not believe that the motives of the majority of those who claim asylum are reprehensible .
13 Cuckney does not believe that the qualities needed to be an effective chairman of a financial institution such as 3i ( Investors in Industry ) are that different to those required to oversee a manufacturing company .
14 Before mid-summer Baldwin did not believe that the Government could last beyond the autumn , but he was still hoping that he could get his Aix holiday .
15 I believe that the government do recognise that there are six million unpaid carers , er I believe that the government depend very heavily upon these six million people , and I do not believe that the government intend to reward them .
16 Council does not believe that the Government 's proposals would lead to a more effective , efficient or accountable system of local government .
17 Is the Minister aware that most people who live in that type of accommodation do not believe that the Government take the problem seriously enough , and that we now urgently require either a direct grant or an allowance for capital borrowing to provide concierge-type services in high tower blocks in Glasgow and other parts of Scotland ?
18 Just a fortnight ago , on 14 November , Councillor Mike Hastie , who is the Tory leader on Aberdeen district council , was reported as saying that he could not believe that the Government would now push through the measures .
19 ’ I do not believe that the Government 's intention is , or ever has been , to privatise the health service .
20 I do not believe that the Government would have introduced the Bill had a Woolf not been at the door .
21 I do not believe that the history of that tradition is a good one .
22 We do not believe that the proposal would add significantly to costs .
23 The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted .
24 There are times when I do not believe that the Secretary of State understands what is happening in local government .
25 In the case of the ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ I do not believe that the majority of international referees would intentionally take biased decisions in favour of one side simply because they happen to speak the same language .
26 In many cases , I do not believe that the return from spending an extra £5000 or £10000 on producing a commercial — rather than on showing it — can easily be justified .
27 A top firm of criminal lawyers told us they did not believe that the chances of a successful prosecution fell below 50 per cent — the CPS 's normal test .
28 The Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) and the Pan-Africanist Movement ( the mass organization launched by the PAC in South Africa in November 1989 — see p. 37033 ) , held a consultative meeting in Harare , the Zimbabwean capital , on March 2-4 , 1990 , after which a spokesperson declared that the PAC did not believe that the South African government had created conditions conducive to negotiations .
29 I do not believe that the museum world will recognise the picture of the Government 's stewardship that the Minister sought to paint .
30 ‘ After all of that , I simply can not believe that the fell was not named after you — if not in tribute then in anticipation . ’
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