Example sentences of "a belief that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of a belief that primary nurses should be at the bedside , nurses do not attend doctors ' rounds , instead they collect medical objectives afterwards . |
| 2 | Education about the Third World which does not refer to the socio-economic problems of rural Europe can promote a belief that European development has worked and that failure lives elsewhere in the world , or that there is no relationship between the problems of European DRAs and those of the predominantly rural Third World countries . |
| 3 | The issue is whether or not there should be a strong framework and organizational commitment to instruments of public policy or whether or not there is a belief that such interventions are illegitimate and best left to the mysterious movements of market forces . |
| 4 | A massive programme of institutional reforms was premised on a belief that certain elements in the economy , polity and society of Japan had been conducive to the rise of militarism in the country and the waging of aggressive war . |
| 5 | Underlying the FMI is a belief that better use of resources requires a clearer definition of the objectives of expenditure , and as a first step all departments were obliged to specify their objectives as a basis for determining priorities and measuring achievement . |
| 6 | The more lenient punishments given to women probably reflect a belief that female crime is a result of sickness , of some physical or emotional problem , rather than being rational action with specific , often financial , motives . |
| 7 | A typical house church is marked by the exercise of some or all of the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12 and by a belief that scriptural prophecy is being fulfilled today . |
| 8 | It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen . |
| 9 | Had n't his book , in which he retained a belief that two systems in one country would work when Hong Kong went back to China , been rather overtaken by events ? |
| 10 | Constructivist rationalism , which Hayek associates with the thought of Descartes , Hobbes , Rousseau , and Bentham , is founded on a belief that social institutions are , or ought to be , the product of deliberate design . |
| 11 | The result is a tendency to ‘ blame the victim ’ , a belief that older people have caused the plight in which they find themselves . |
| 12 | Moreover , there is also a belief that older workers are less adaptable and not prepared to retrain . |
| 13 | Underlying the analysis is a belief that particular forms of strategy arise out of a recognition by working-class members of a need to reduce the material insecurity immanent in the forced commodification of labour — ‘ people engage in various forms of action because it is in their interests to do so ’ ( ibid. p 7 ) . |
| 14 | What fired the stock market , however , is a belief that corporate profits should start to improve before consumer spending rises , thanks to the reduction in stocks and costs over the past year . |
| 15 | There are a variety of reasons for a belief that structural adjustments to the EC budget are not over . |
| 16 | Although they favour differing explanations , the feminist and the sexist share a belief that linguistic behaviour is one of the keys to understanding the nature and status of women . |
| 17 | The main thrust of Prism 's work is a belief that creative work can foster equality , joy and empowerment . |
| 18 | It is a very short step for a human being , endowed with imagination as humans undoubtedly are , and possessed of a belief that some creature or possession can bring comfort to him , to start to call upon that object of his belief , from a distance . |
| 19 | This is a belief that celestial bodies in some way influence our planet and ourselves ( the macrocosm affecting the microcosm ) . |