Example sentences of "believe [pron] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French believed there were British officers aboard , and others think someone came back to fire the explosive , for there was more than an hour 's delay on the set time . |
| 2 | The Romans believed there were three sister Graces , befriended by the MUSES . |
| 3 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 4 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 5 | State 3 to state 4 — usually if the approximate number of blocks for the item was estimated too high , resulting in Offline believing there is more space available even though it is physically full |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes we make the mistake of believing there is some connection , when in truth we are discussing a different era , different players who played different laws . |
| 7 | By nightfall he believed he was 30 miles from Lubeck , so next morning he headed for the port along with workpeople . |
| 8 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 9 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 10 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 11 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 12 | Why do you go on believing he 's some sort of great big nome in the sky ? ’ |
| 13 | I read the hands of the clock wrongly , thought it was 5.10 , and awoke with a jump , believing it was five minutes before the start of the marathon . |
| 14 | The architecture student who believed anything was possible set up home with the designer — and put his dynamic business brain to use in helping Armani to launch his own label in 1975 . |
| 15 | ‘ It seems she does ; you would n't persist in a story that will be disproved as soon as I meet Mr and Mrs Smith , but I do n't believe you 're identical twins . |
| 16 | I do not believe there is another contractor capable of going from Greenfield to completion in this way , across the range of services , and on this scale . |
| 17 | Smithkline Beecham say retailers were ask to remove the effected product from their shelves earlier this month but have n't alerted customers because they do n't believe there is any risk to public health . |
| 18 | I honestly do n't believe there is any alternative . ’ |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in this case I do believe there is some value in tracing differences in the perspectives from which various groups of colleagues seemed to have developed their thinking . |
| 20 | SCO wants more business at the high-end of the market — currently some 25% of its sales — and does n't believe there is enough room in the Intel space for the four or more contenders now in line . |
| 21 | Now having said that , of course , I 've almost answered the other question , that I just do not believe there are any rules . |
| 22 | Now having said that , of course , I 've almost answered the other question , that I just do not believe there are any rules . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 24 | The Bank said yesterday it did not believe there was any case for giving extra compensation to UK depositors beyond the statutory deposit protection scheme . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be ignoring the reality of the current trading position if I said I did n't believe there were more closures to come . |
| 26 | And I do believe there were some elephants , which I liked . |
| 27 | IN THE two or three minutes before kick-off Graeme Souness will make his players believe they are 10 feet tall and can walk through fire . |
| 28 | He does believe they were powerful leaders and that to some extent the Bible erm shows a true like for example Freud says that there are some in the like Moses ' temper , and he loses his temper , he murders an Egyptian Freud . |
| 29 | Er but I do n't believe it 's worthwhile doing manual on the cases , they will get picked up in the next data support run which runs two weeks afterwards , that 'll be erm beginning of May . |
| 30 | I ca n't believe it 's four years . |