Example sentences of "the [noun sg] believe [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours . |
| 2 | ‘ The number of closures is much greater than the Government believes it to be . |
| 3 | Yes , well I think we believe that to be true , and certainly I think the Government believes it to be true erm we , People often say that the universities erm do n't erm satisfy the needs of society . |
| 4 | The fact that the Government retained executive detention on the statute book by a free act last year is an indication that the Government believe it to be important that the instrument should be available . |
| 5 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 6 | After the torrent of adverse publicity they attracted last season , the hunters were anxious to show they 're not the rich savages most of the public believes them to be . |