Example sentences of "believe [that] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , 48 per cent of manual workers believed that they would pay higher taxes under Labour , which speaks for itself . |
| 2 | told a Gallup poll that they believed that they would pay more tax under a Labour Government and 59 per cent . |
| 3 | Many involved with its setting up feel deeply unhappy that they were misled when it was set up because the Government encouraged them and they believed that they would get direct financial support . |
| 4 | Only 25% of Italians , for example , believed that they could influence national and local government , and 47% said they had no such influence . |
| 5 | Although Almond and Verba found few people in their survey who actually sought to exert such influence , the proportion who believed that they could exert influence was significant . |
| 6 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 7 | ‘ The ancients believed that they could create immortality , ’ said the shapechanger . |
| 8 | Now these limits were fatal , they believed that they could win the war through air power and they , they could n't and the ground casualties , although fairly slight , when you think of it fifty thousand people killed is not a bi a large amount in a major war , far from it erm although erm militarily not that significant , politically they were devastating because people in America started to ask the question , what is this war for ? |
| 9 | She really wanted him to teach the swimming , believing that they might achieve for Nails , even if only because they were frightened not to ; that was the reason she had made herself be nice to him , inviting him to come up when Miss Bedwelty came . |
| 10 | We laugh about it now , but it is sobering to think that thousands of men , either too old or too young for the Services , should have gone quite voluntarily , many nights a week , to drill and to manoeuvre , seriously believing that they might have to encounter an invading army . |
| 11 | Reports from America offer numerous examples of users who get trapped in repeated , compulsive administration of the drug giving rise to incidents usually associated with bad acid trips , with people believing that they can fly or attempting to get out of moving vehicles . |
| 12 | 17.11 Just as many young children come to school believing that they can read , so they will come willing to try to be writers . |
| 13 | When they get drunk , have a binge , take on yet another new project or make even more plans for someone else 's recovery , they are not relapsing ; they are still suffering , still believing that they can compromise with the concept of powerlessness over mind-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 14 | Citizens in those countries retained allegiance to the political process , content most of the time to leave politics to elites , while believing that they could influence the outcome of both local and national decision-making if necessary . |
| 15 | Well I do n't believe that they would succeed because I think that we have taken account of all the views expressed and that members will be making an informed decision today . |
| 16 | Fancy , you would n't believe that they 'd miss that would you ? |
| 17 | Labour Members may jeer in a debate in the House , but do they believe that they will get through an election campaign with the inconsistencies that are revealed in this document ? |
| 18 | most likely to make people believe that they can achieve a certain thing and let them get up and do it and erm so that the Party 's role is in the initial stage fostering as much mobilization |
| 19 | But I do n't believe that they can predict its effects . |
| 20 | The two brothers of Armagnac , count and archbishop , thought Grilly ‘ are so oppressed … that in the end they will be compelled to submit by some contrived method … and one can not believe that they can withstand these afflictions much longer . |
| 21 | How dare they believe that they could stand before the flower of Bretonnian chivalry ! |
| 22 | It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners . |
| 23 | I 've already answered the underlying question , I do believe that they should have the maximum discretion and then they should be answerable for their decisions to their local electors who want a good police service and want a good education service and there is money there for them to do it if that is their wish . |
| 24 | A regional manager spends more time , you know , okay , it 's a little bit longer , I deal with more lines than you , the pressure is far , you know , every branch manager I know , the guy 's got to believe that they 'll get staff from somewhere , it 's just as long as they get the order in and the availability right . |
| 25 | All at once , they allowed themselves to believe that they would go on living . |
| 26 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 27 | Mr Aziz 's initial reaction encouraged the Russians to believe that they would get a good reply , and get it promptly . |
| 28 | It was very difficult , indeed , to believe that they could snap open the cages of the treadmills and free Nuadu and the others . |
| 29 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 30 | The regions are far too big and complex to be handled from Detroit and even if they were foolish enough to believe that they could do it more effectively — which they ca n't — they would be crazy to try . ’ |