Example sentences of "believe that [pron] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , in turn recruited and controlled others who believed that they were members of a genuine loyalist secret organisation . |
| 2 | Many believed that they were victims of prejudice . |
| 3 | Hedilla believed that he was head of the party , but other members of the committee and their respective coteries considered that Hedilla was no more than " first among equals " and that , in any case , his authority was only provisional . |
| 4 | According to one of the staff , she believed that she was Queen Victoria and did not like anyone encroaching on the space around her throne . |
| 5 | Many believed that it was Havelock Wilson who had betrayed them . |
| 6 | The early Christians believed that it was God 's plan for the Jews to reject Jesus so that his death and resurrection could unite all people with God . |
| 7 | But Carol Wilson believed that it was Branson who was ‘ stalling ’ over giving her any control in the company . |
| 8 | He could just nod , or sigh , or do anything , in fact , which Pooh would rightly take to correlate with Rabbit 's believing that there 's honey . |
| 9 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 10 | In all , identifying Ulf as the son of Ragnvald seems at least as plausible as believing that he was Cnut 's brother-in-law Ulf . |
| 11 | Do n't fool yourself into believing that it is politics , ’ he wrote . |
| 12 | That is to say , he or she must believe that it is God 's will for him or her at that time . |
| 13 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 14 | There were stars , brilliant and manufactured , so many of them , ridiculous to believe that they were suns and planets . |
| 15 | Likewise when serious troubles threaten and sorrow comes , a compelling need to believe that there is help or relief available from a source of much greater scope than that neighbourly help which meets the lesser needs of day to day discomforts , shows itself to be experienced by , in some measure , nearly all humanity . |
| 16 | In a classroom where such an answer-orientated atmosphere exists , it is difficult to imagine much exploration into unknown territory taking place , as pupils will find it difficult to believe that there are areas where their teacher does not know ‘ the answer ’ . |
| 17 | This is a rather more nebulous concept , but IBM seems to believe that there are loads of small businesses that are currently running their operations on local network-based systems and are beginning to get to the size where they are beginning to need transaction processing facilities on their server . |
| 18 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
| 19 | So for Rabbit to believe that P is true is just for him to believe P , i.e. to believe that there 's honey . |
| 20 | When recruited , black soldiers were informed by colonial officials that they would receive the same training , equipment , and pay as other British troops , they were also led to believe that there were possibilities for promotion . |
| 21 | So when Simon says that they are all bad , they all fear each other , Piggy refuses to believe that he is part of ‘ the beast ’ , therefore , he abruptly answers Simon 's thoughts by shouting |
| 22 | So if what 's in the pot is honey , its taste will cause Pooh to believe that it 's honey . |
| 23 | So was it too much to believe that it was Kemp that Stratton had seen — about five o'clock , had n't he said ? |
| 24 | Any theist committed to the view that God is omnipresent must by definition believe that there is evidence of God 's presence in the reality observed on earth . |
| 25 | However , I believe that there are advantages in improved communications with the client . |
| 26 | ‘ We believe that there are questions of interpretation as to what is a cross-subsidy in respect of operators of aircraft above and below fifteen tonnes . |
| 27 | But many commentators believe that there are points of common interest between the government , the traffickers and the traditional ruling class , and that Mr Barco , a lame-duck president in the closing months of his administration , may no longer have the power within his own party to sustain his offensive . |
| 28 | Many people believe that there are schoolrooms and football grounds where civilized order is forever on the verge of breaking down . |
| 29 | I believe that there are objectives that should be endorsed , not because the Bill favours one part of the country at the expense of another but because an international terminal , as well as a through station , at King 's Cross will benefit the whole country . |
| 30 | I believe that there are ways of getting local people to participate in their own ceasefire with some help from outside , but it should not need mass troop movements to do it . |