Example sentences of "believe [that] this [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 2 | The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists . |
| 3 | Do you truly believe that this country has really benefited from the importation of blacks , Asians etc ? |
| 4 | Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time . |
| 5 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 6 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 7 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 8 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 9 | They and others who employ what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy appear , then , to believe that this model insulates them from the arguments I have been discussing . |
| 10 | And I kept telling him , yeah , Oliver , but the day that , you know , some Nicaraguan unity group appears and it 's evident that it 's got everybody in it … that 's the day I 'll begin to believe that this thing has a future . |
| 11 | While I believe that this work has promoted a great deal of useful thinking about the place and function of writing in the curriculum , I am not alone in doubting the validity of the model . |
| 12 | I believe that this Government have got that balance right . |
| 13 | We believe that this evidence buttresses our conclusion that any failure to take account of children classified as unoccupied runs the very real risk of understating the extent of child health inequalities . |
| 14 | Many scholars believe that this miracle has the same root as the calming of the storm . |
| 15 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 16 | This predication was confirmed although Gur and Gur ( 1977 ) believe that this relation holds only for right handed , left eye dominant males . |
| 17 | As another Member , Mr Jeremy Hanley , has said , ‘ I believe that this House belongs to the people of the UK and not to its Members … |
| 18 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 19 | In 1972 the number of houses used as second homes in Britain as a whole was estimated at 372000 , but it is believed that this number has declined in recent years due to the inflation in house prices since that date . |
| 20 | One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science . |
| 21 | Miliutin rightly believed that this practice gave rise to major administrative complications . |
| 22 | It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space . |
| 23 | He believes that this estrangement has had a beneficial effect on his prose and that his fusion of English and French thought has resulted in a unique hybrid . |
| 24 | Age Concern believes that this issue needs urgent consideration in the context of the NHS Review , and that the statutory responsibilities of health authorities in this respect should be clarified . |
| 25 | Poulantzas , like Althusser , believes that this arrangement remains constant and applies to all societies , but he argues that the more specific relations between instances vary with time and place . |