Example sentences of "not believe that [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 I do not believe that magistrates will be able to show any greater compassion or understanding that our own elected members .
2 The incident had never been referred to again and Dorothea did not believe that Alida would remember it .
3 I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well .
4 It requires a depth of human understanding , an ability to communicate on a one-to-one basis with different characters , and I do not believe that Frank can do this very well .
5 Whichever way the outcome goes in an individual case , I do not believe that society can lose .
6 I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else .
7 But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism .
8 But it does not believe that music should be used to cover up , or encourage , worshippers to talk .
9 I do not believe that Maastricht will be the ultimate summit on such matters .
10 The Shah himself could not believe that Hassan would throw him out .
11 She clearly does not believe that Wilson can have acted in this matter without the knowledge of people in the auction house : ‘ Sotheby 's claim that it is an unwitting participant rings hollow .
12 Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire .
13 The EC does not believe that recognition will be a panacea for Bosnia , the tinderbox of the First World War and a patchwork of warring groups made up of 60 per cent Muslims , 30 per cent Serbs and 20 per cent Croats .
14 Also , he did not believe that Labour would coalesce with a Government of which Mr Lloyd George was a member .
15 But , given the destructive power of modern weapons , they did not believe that civilization could be protected by war .
16 Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent .
17 Huy could not believe that Merymose could not see that .
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