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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 They hoped and believed that Bonar Law would fail to secure an overall majority for the Conservative Party .
2 The reason was , I think , that the Africans were deeply suspicious of Ian Smith and believed that any agreement which was devised to give them full democratic rights would in fact never be implemented .
3 The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them .
4 Throughout her work , she tends to regard the happy , mature , and stable woman as an ideal reached only occasionally , and to believe that most women are unhappy and inclined to unworthy behaviour .
5 Biochemists , particularly , tend to confuse these two and believe that all problems can be solved by isolating and giving names to molecules — which are the mechanisms .
6 The unions hope to embarrass Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , with tomorrow 's lobby and believe that many Tories at the conference back their call for an increased offer .
7 The chief executive officer and corporate management understand the critical link between design engineering and manufacturing engineering in their business and believe that effective design for quality is an essential part of the corporate business strategy .
8 We do not share Dr Bailey 's confidence that urinary infection is unimportant in the pathogenesis of reflux nephropathy and believe that deep tissue infection in general requires longer treatment than uncomplicated lower tract infection .
9 The second reason , less plausibly , is that they regard non-shareholder groups as having legitimate claims on the company and believe that these claims should be satisfied even though a reduction in shareholder wealth is involved .
10 They see a need to identify those children requiring new parents , and believe that social workers should be more committed to placing children with new parents in permanent homes ; and they note a greater commitment to this policy in the United States .
11 It is mercifully the case that almost all the people of this country subscribe , in general terms , to the values of liberty for the individual under the law , and believe that this liberty is least insecure in a parliamentary democracy .
12 He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need .
13 It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it .
14 At least one member of the committee has no objection to the committee 's papers being publicly available and believes that most data in licence applications could , with little loss to anyone , be made publicly available .
  Next page