Example sentences of "the [noun] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal has been retained as the Board believes that information on the market value of liabilities is relevant to an assessment of the economic position of the company ( Discussion Paper , paragraphs 3.31-3.35 ) . |
| 2 | He said teachers in the humanities believed that pupils were obtaining grades they could not possibly achieve in exams . |
| 3 | German rates should start to come down later this year , when — and if — the Bundesbank believes that inflation is under control . |
| 4 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 5 | The Shias believe that Ali 's descendants — the Imams — are the lawful successors of Mohamed . |
| 6 | As the Opposition believe that taxes , particularly local taxes , should be based on ability to pay , is it not absolutely scandalous that they suggest that the elderly and the single , whatever house they live in , should have to pay more than those with the ability to pay and are not willing to grant a discount ? |
| 7 | The Jews believed that God controlled everything : the forces of nature , Israel as his chosen people and also the destiny of all other nations . |
| 8 | The Jews believe that God promised Israel to them because they are Abraham 's heirs . |
| 9 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 10 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 11 | Given the B's believe that A uses this strategy , we will show that it is optimal for A to use this strategy . |
| 12 | We show that provided the B's believe that A follows a linear strategy , then , it is best for A to behave in this way even if it can choose any strategy . |
| 13 | The creed had such a powerful hold upon the party that even Quintin Hogg , who later chose the life-peerage title Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — you can hardly get more urban than that — was opining in 1947 that ‘ the Conservative believes that farming is more than a business ; it is a way of life , essential to the community in war and peace . ’ |
| 14 | The Armenians believed that Ararat was the centre of the world ; but the mountain was divided between three great empires , and the Armenians ended up with none of it , so I sha n't continue this comparison . |
| 15 | Margaret Meek ( 1982 , p.26 ) says that ‘ The parents ’ role … is to encourage the child to believe that reading is a worthwhile and pleasurable thing to do , that literacy is within his grasp , and to provide the means for his enjoyment and success ' . |
| 16 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 17 | The investigators believe that PROLOG achieves this exceptionally well , because of its flexible datastructuring ; a control flow which needs very little attention from the programmer ; and its simplicity and uniformity . |
| 18 | The DSS believes that NICs are due on such payments ( the Faculty has set out the reasons why it does not agree ) , but comments that it is possible to deal with matters rather differently by the so-called ‘ statutory method ’ . |
| 19 | None of the Khans believed that Artai was so incapable of controlling the violence of his temperament , Alexei thought , or they would not have elected him . |
| 20 | The rebels believe that Mr Major 's credibility is in tatters after a series of defeats and retreats as the Maastricht Bill lumbers through Parliament . |
| 21 | The empiricists believe that language should be learnable by experience , without any prior knowledge . |
| 22 | For , since the Egyptians believed that Osiris had actually lived in their land long ago , his cult signified that a particular historical event , in this case the death and resurrection of Osiris , could be perpetually repeated by magical simulation so that its supposed good effects could benefit those persons on whose behalf the rites were performed . |
| 23 | The Government of the day believed that takeover activity was the means by which the stockmarkets ensured that companies were motivated to become as efficient and successful as possible . |
| 24 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 25 | ‘ I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies , education and culture for their minds , and dignity , equality and freedom for their spirits . |
| 26 | In this situation the Commission believes that consideration should he given to the use of a cantor , or animateur . |
| 27 | However , the Commission believes that time given in this way pays enormous dividends for a body of volunteer , amateur musicians and for those leading it . |
| 28 | Again both sides of industry are closely involved in their preparation , and in addition the Commission believes that trade unions should be " properly consulted in preparation of standardisation measures , and in the management of these Directives " . |
| 29 | The Americans believed that priority should be given to the restructuring of the European economies in the long term whereas the British were preoccupied with what they argued was a short-term dollar crisis . |
| 30 | The government believed that BT could reduce the real price of phone calls in subsequent years for two reasons : unusually good opportunities for cost-saving technical advances , and a previous lethargy as a public industry which it was hoped privatization would dispel . |