Example sentences of "believe that [adj] [noun] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 2 | Mindful of recent events in Dakar , these officials believed that Allied interests would best be served by maintaining a working relationship with Vichy administrators . |
| 3 | They hoped and believed that Bonar Law would fail to secure an overall majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 4 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 5 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 6 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 7 | This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary . |
| 8 | The CIGS , General ( later Field Marshal ) Sir Francis Festing , felt the price of Sandys ' Reformation was too high and considered resignation , but the other Chiefs would not support him , believing that such gestures would have little impact on a government that had the full support of Parliament and the electorate for its Defence policy . |
| 9 | A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders . |
| 10 | R placed great emphasis on the Government 's efforts in education , perhaps believing that this approach would evoke a sympathetic response from its recently educated African readership . |
| 11 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 12 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 13 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 14 | Well then I ca n't believe that any garage would , would refuse to give you a ten piece for their own machine . |
| 15 | If I did not believe that those changes would benefit patients , I would not have approved the application . |
| 16 | I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe . |
| 17 | whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked . |
| 18 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 20 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 21 | Zander was more sceptical about the rejection of contingency fee schemes , refusing , in particular , to believe that professional standards would be lost completely . |
| 22 | They were encouraged to believe that external agents would tackle the problem of a territorial settlement . |
| 23 | Indeed , social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution . |
| 24 | I find it hard to believe that this amount would be likely to deter someone from participating in a tournament . |
| 25 | We insist on integrity because we believe that internal compromises would deny what is often called " equality before the law " and sometimes " formal equality . " |
| 26 | I believe that many visitors would like to have available a short paper about the early history to enable them to derive greater enjoyment from their stay and I hope those who want to know more will be stimulated to consult the Inventory . |
| 27 | Those who believe that such insistence would ‘ infringe civil liberties ’ should appreciate that this liberty is valueless if wise judgment is so impaired by lack of insight that sufferers from the underlying illness can use this liberty only to their detriment . |
| 28 | I believe that such people would find it inexplicable if that were to happen . |
| 29 | The offer is there and is open to senior police officers if they believe that such batons would be of advantage to their forces . |
| 30 | believe that Labour policies would make the economic position dramatically worse . |