Example sentences of "believe that [adj] [noun pl] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is dubious about the mass appropriation of hip hop style in fashion , believing that many stylists are ‘ cashing in ’ . |
| 2 | It is an atavistic reaction , born partly of disappointment that decades of believing that infectious diseases are a danger past and partly from the underlying despair of those infected with HIV and the anger of the groups that represent them . |
| 3 | Believing that old certainties are ill suited to new times , Culpitt appears , like a number of other influential commentators — Klein and O'Higgins ( 1985 ) ; Goodin ( 1985 ) — to favour the development of more reflexive , less ‘ ideological ’ approaches to social policy ( ‘ unprincipled' , pragmatic forms of welfare pluralism seem to be the favoured option in this regard ) . |
| 4 | But I do not believe that financial rewards are themselves enough or are important except in the Herzberg terms . |
| 5 | Both rulers and ruled may believe that some issues are not a matter for public concern . |
| 6 | ‘ We do n't believe that these adverts are specific enough to do more than stimulate people 's interest in our general services , ’ said . |
| 7 | I do not believe that these anomalies are sufficiently important to justify further organisational tinkering , to the detriment of the APB 's ability to get on with its work . |
| 8 | For example , study of the third sequence might lead us to believe that foggy days are relatively rare occurrences at Upland , whereas the powered transition probability matrix gave a result of 51 % foggy days and 49% clear days . |
| 9 | However , it can be argued that prescribing of psychotropic drugs when marital and social difficulties are pre-eminent might encourage the patient to believe that such problems are due to ‘ illness ’ and therefore not surmountable by his own efforts . |
| 10 | It can lead them to believe that such children are racially distinct from other blacks . |
| 11 | ‘ At twenty he is still young and foolish enough to believe that all women are goddesses under the skin . |
| 12 | It is , for example , quite mistaken to believe that all farmers are hostile towards environmentalism . |
| 13 | bureaucratic managers need to believe that all employees are individuals and that the individuals matter ; |
| 14 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the US , the Cohen Commission 's influential report suggested that : ‘ There is no reason to believe that independent auditors are more likely to predict whether a company will liquidate than they are able to predict the outcome of any other uncertainties … |
| 17 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 18 | ‘ Many of us truly want to believe that money-making schemes are genuine , even if we harbour some doubts . ’ |
| 19 | Quite apart from the fact that managers do not dominate the board of directors in many firms , there is every reason to believe that corporate managers are under intense pressure ( from the markets , and from the need to deliver profits ) to behave capitalistically . |
| 20 | However , some experts believe that technical solutions are dealing only with the symptoms , not the causes of piracy . |
| 21 | But , in general , clubs seem incapable of grasping an elementary fact that cynicism is rife among an ever-increasing number of people who believe that many players are overpaid , overrated and out of touch . |
| 22 | Our final recommendations will , inevitably , reflect available resources and the international movement 's policies — for example , that all members should campaign on all parts of the Mandate — but we believe that new initiatives are possible . |
| 23 | I believe that such statements are likely to be readily identified in Parliamentary proceedings and the cases in which they are relevant will be determined by the nature of the subject matter . |
| 24 | I believe that similar items are available through specialist art suppliers ’ . |
| 25 | I believe that similar items are available through specialist art suppliers ’ . |
| 26 | The Edgsons believe that all houses are in a constant state of change , as they reflect the lives of their occupants . |
| 27 | We therefore believe that all galaxies are composed of quarks rather than antiquarks ; it seems implausible that some galaxies should be matter and some antimatter . |
| 28 | Friedman points out that in this economy , workers are suffering from money illusion : they believe that real wages are rising when in fact both money wages and prices are rising , leaving real wages unchanged . |
| 29 | I believe that certain men are born in order to further the forward movement of the human race , like those animals who are born in order to destroy other more dangerous animals , perhaps in order to function as a point of departure , after their death , for others even more developed . |
| 30 | Seventy three per cent of them believe that inadequate resources are a key issue facing higher education , according to the survey , which was conducted by Gallup and commissioned by NATFHE , the university and college lecturers ' union . |