Example sentences of "believe [that] [adj] [noun] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any action which contradicts these laws — whether it is the working class believing that parliamentary reform can eradicate the exploitative nature of capitalism or capitalists believing that reform can eradicate the ultimate demands for fundamental and revolutionary change from the working class — is defined merely as an expression of false consciousness . |
| 2 | Yet the mathematical calculations that would be necessary to explain the principles of vision are just as complex and difficult , and nobody has ever had any difficulty in believing that little animals can see . |
| 3 | If their commitment to the central explanatory role of the individual is not to be undermined by concessions such as these , individualists must believe that environmental factors can not carry all the explanatory weight . |
| 4 | We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations . |
| 5 | Suffice to say that I do not believe that human activity can be explained from or reduced to the ecological level . |
| 6 | User expectations are often unreasonably high ; use of administrative computing systems encourages bureaucrats to believe that environmental data can just as readily be analysed and used to support decisions . |
| 7 | Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery . |
| 8 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 9 | Perhaps this is considered too expensive , but it is hard to believe that 240 doctors can be trained at no capital cost , even if there is head space at medical schools . |
| 10 | In this study I have not attempted such quantitative analyses , but I still believe that good use can be made of a combination of the two approaches . |
| 11 | Saburo Kato , who is head of the Environment Agency 's global warming department , said : " We believe that such targets can be met without significant economic impact " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We welcome the emphasis on Communication as the main aim of language teaching , but we believe that real communication can only be achieved when there is a sound knowledge of linguistic structure . |
| 14 | It is favoured by all those who believe that institutional practices can be changed by persistence and goodwill , and by those who understand that the best way to defeat feminism is to co-opt its radical and rebellious potential . |
| 15 | We believe that British Coal can achieve a significant share of the coal market for generation in the new contracts which begin in 1993 , and we believe that it will be able to achieve that at competitive prices . |
| 16 | His departure now is seen as the result of a power struggle between those who believe that some wildlife can be privately owned and managed for profit , and those who think all wildlife should belong to the state . |
| 17 | I believe that these conditions can be satisfied . |
| 18 | But we do n't believe that those sort of problems can be solved centrally , we believe that local communities can look at their own areas and see what they can do to lessen the problem . |
| 19 | Wholeness of body , mind and soul should be the prior concern of all Christians and they believe that this wholeness can be found through faith . |
| 20 | The rebirthers believe that positive thoughts can have similar effects . |
| 21 | We believe that social anthropologists can contribute more to the debates , in both empirical and theoretical terms . |
| 22 | It is believed that some vines can live as long as five hundred years although such a plant would yield a negligible crop of grapes . |
| 23 | He believes that non-violent rape can be ‘ most excusable . ’ |
| 24 | Boltwood believes that psychic energy can give us the power to alter subconsciously our perception of the situation . |
| 25 | The first group firmly believes that any document can be broken down into a series of discrete specifications which can then be used to automate the production process be embedding encapsulated versions , often called tags , within the source material . |
| 26 | Like Jakobson , he believes that literary language can be analyzed objectively and exactly , though rather than speaking of its ‘ poetic ’ function , he opts for the term ‘ stylistic ’ function instead . |