Example sentences of "believe that it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if he believed that it would kill me . |
| 2 | He did not believe in the new property tax ; he believed that it would constitute theft from the old ladies living down the road , who would consequently vote against the Tories . |
| 3 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 4 | I took that view for many good reasons , partly because I always believed that it would play far too much into the hands of the Government . |
| 5 | The rest , mainly those with acquired impairments , believed that it would assist their rehabilitation . |
| 6 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |
| 7 | He believed that it could cure ‘ all illness … with the exception of malformation and germ diseases ’ . |
| 8 | By forcing MPs to give up their seats if they joined the Cabinet , the NPKA believed that it could eliminate vote-buying and other corrupt practices . |
| 9 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |
| 10 | In London during the Great Plague people chewed on the root , believing that it would protect them from the disease . |
| 11 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 12 | Smith is embarrassed about the award , believing that it should have gone to Graham Gooch . |
| 13 | Erm we sir had objected to the erm er allocation proposed for of employment land under I five er to Harrogate , er believing that it should have been even more than |
| 14 | We are used to the Labour party believing that it can talk up its support by talking the country down . |
| 15 | Conversely , the Single European Market could benefit operators in the South East but a great many operators are uncertain ( 31 per cent ) or indifferent ( 36 per cent ) to the Single Market , believing that it will have no effect . |
| 16 | Did he really believe that it would vote for the introduction of industrial democracy in the Bullock Report 's dubious prescription for it ? |
| 17 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 18 | He could n't believe that it would have wandered far when it had n't even been outside the stable for such a long time . |
| 19 | Mr Deputy Speaker , er i you will have observed that the two front benches have spoken at incredible length and you have had to reprimand them , or certainly the opposition for er going away from the subject matter and do you not er believe that it would have been far better to allow some back benchers to get . |
| 20 | He did n't really believe that it would help for steady running . |
| 21 | Obviously the owner of the cottage had never been burgled and did n't really believe that it might happen ; there was a new-looking bolt at the bottom of the kitchen door that had n't been shot . |
| 22 | I do n't underestimate the difficulty of the attempt , but I do believe that it can work . |
| 23 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |
| 24 | Is it because the Labour party does not believe that it could convince the people , on its own terms , that those are meritorious things to do ? |
| 25 | We have heard no suggestion that recourse to Parliamentary history has significantly increased the cost of litigation in Australia or New Zealand and I do not believe that it will do so in this country . |
| 26 | Mr. Walker : There have been full consultations with the port authorities about the Cardiff bay barrage , which is the one for which I have responsibility , and I do not believe that it will have an adverse effect . |
| 27 | Thus even though a clearly recognizable individual equivalent of the mother-goddesses of primal agriculture will probably never be found in early childhood , there is some reason to believe that it may manifest itself later in life . |
| 28 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 29 | His absence had n't prevented her thinking about him , but perhaps she had allowed herself to believe that it would continue indefinitely , hence her shock at seeing him now and the panicky sensation of a shadow falling over her once more , its darkness an almost tangible threat . |
| 30 | If anything , I tend to believe that it will make you unhappy : either immediately unhappy , as you are impaled by incompatibility , or unhappy later , when the woodworm has quietly been gnawing away for years and the bishop 's throne collapses . |