Example sentences of "be [verb] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe I 've been too long with this screwy outfit ; I 'm beginning to believe that stuff they are handing out from the New York office . |
| 2 | Also within the /a/ system , however , there is a high incidence of back varieties of /a/ : in BV , this vowel is realized in certain following consonantal environments as a long , back vowel , which is in many contexts virtually identical to RP ( as in RP dance , bath ) ; on a superficial view we may therefore be tempted to believe that speakers are adopting this external norm . |
| 3 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 4 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 5 | For generations they have been led to believe that Britain and America secretly pull the strings in their country . |
| 6 | ( I had been led to believe that God lived in Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 7 | Several key portfolios in the national working committee ( NWC ) , the ANC 's " shadow cabinet " , were taken by a younger generation of ANC leaders , who were thought to believe that Mandela had assumed too much personal power since his release from prison . |
| 8 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 9 | Nevertheless a handful of American politicians , writers and others were coming to believe that situations could arise wherein close , if not formal , co-operation with Britain might be appropriate . |
| 10 | Ballyskeagh 's nights which were done after we were led to believe that Wednesday was Dungannon 's best night of the week . |
| 11 | John Gunn of British & Commonwealth , John Ashcroft of Coloroll and , to some extent , the Saatchi brothers are among those who were tempted to believe that expansion was synonymous with diversification . |
| 12 | In recent weeks the whole issue of prison conditions has been pushed to the forefront of public debate , following reports that Home Secretary Michael Howard is said to believe that conditions in many prisons are ‘ too lax ’ . |
| 13 | Or that one is to continue to believe in the biblical God despite all experiences to the contrary , that is to say believe that God is bound up with a religion and a community in which women are counted inferior ( in which case one is attempting to believe in an evil God ) ? |
| 14 | Although it is appealing to believe that bits of the two stories can be added together , we maintain that there are always two stories to tell and that combinations do not solve the problem . |
| 15 | As originally disclosed by the Guardian , the estimated value of the tax concessions alone offered at one point during the negotiations was close to £35 million , while the European Commission was led to believe that BAe would benefit by only £25 million from the easing of tax restrictions . |
| 16 | I was led to believe that Rocky had moved to Derby . |