Example sentences of "be [adj] believe [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation in England was quite different at this time , and illustrates the principle that the horizons of what scholars are prepared to believe about musical performance in the past can be set by what their contemporaries among performers are able to provide . |
| 2 | But it would also be helpful to believe in some paradisal previous age of matriarchy and goddess-worship , to believe in astrology and to believe in the rightneousness of each feminist reflex . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I know it 's wrong to believe in such things , but Lilith could n't have known about seven , could she ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Aye , ‘ t is easy to believe in these woeful times . |
| 5 | The thunder still battered overhead , and she could hear the splash and gurgle of water running in the courtyard , but here at least it was possible to believe in quiet , to think it might be possible to speak and to be spoken to . |
| 6 | It was hard to believe at first , of course . |
| 7 | It was hard to believe in such luck . |
| 8 | In the evening they walked home to Stowey in the summer moonlight ‘ through echoing grove , by fairy stream or waterfall ’ — Coleridge lamenting that Wordsworth was unwilling to believe in local superstitions , ‘ and that there was a something corporeal , a matter-of-fact-ness , a clinging to the palpable , or often to the petty , in his poetry , in consequence ’ . |