Example sentences of "they believe [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |
| 2 | Their Lordships also upheld the trial judge 's refusal to allow the defendants to put any evidence before the jury about why they believed that nuclear weapons , rather than their own actions , were ‘ prejudicial to the safety … of the State ’ . |
| 3 | Friedman points out that in this economy , workers are suffering from money illusion : they believe that real wages are rising when in fact both money wages and prices are rising , leaving real wages unchanged . |
| 4 | They believe that international satellites that photograph the surface of the Earth mean that any sudden infestation of locusts can be nipped in the bud using modern pesticides . |
| 5 | The offer is there and is open to senior police officers if they believe that such batons would be of advantage to their forces . |
| 6 | Some critics are scathing about the vogue for ‘ child-centred ’ schemes that fail ( allegedly ) to provide young people with even the rudiments of human culture ; they believe that contemporary views of childhood and childcare are unequal to the task of producing in children such socially desirable qualities as competence , co-operation , responsibility , social sensitivity and moral awareness . |
| 7 | They have taken this position not because they are resistant to change , but because they believe that these proposals will politicise the British Police Service and they are in my view entirely right to have that view . |
| 8 | Consequently , they believe that domestic services are a good thing and a necessary part of everyday life and that by encouraging the growth of urban centres they are making a positive contribution to ‘ community life ’ . |