Example sentences of "believe [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) is apparently the only person in the country who does not yet believe that the minimum wage would cost a substantial number of jobs if it were implemented . |
| 2 | If we believe that expectations about Y t are formed rationally then we must also believe that the actual value of Y t diverges from the value that people expect , by a random error which we label v t . |
| 3 | I do not believe that the genuine asylum seeker will be treated fairly . |
| 4 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 5 | If war broke out he did not believe that the Soviet Union would mount a localised attack on Japan . |
| 6 | We do not believe that the anti-neutrophil antibody in PSC is similar to that found in Wegener 's granulomatosis for three reasons . |
| 7 | Do not denigrate our streets as terrible after just one day in Birmingham ; do not believe that the only person you will find reading a book will be a ‘ broken winged angel ’ guarding a tomb in the city centre ! |
| 8 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . " |
| 9 | His attachment to the ‘ theory of courage ’ made him believe that the Western world in his lifetime had been short not of wit or of strength , but of will . |
| 10 | To put this differently and more technically , I do not believe that the causal nexus of history , or that of nature , could be broken . |
| 11 | I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken . |
| 12 | I ca n't believe that the vast majority of serious Munro baggers are n't also keen to explore Quinag , Suilven , Ben Loyal , Arran , etc. etc. , even if only in due course . |
| 13 | You can tell that Arthur Parker , head of IBM UK 's Enterprise Systems division , is getting heartily sick of journalists asking him about downsizing : ‘ If I only read the papers and did n't know my subject I would believe that the vast majority of large corporations are desperate to move applications off the mainframe — and that is rubbish ’ he says . |
| 14 | In view of what occurred later , one may believe that the young man was intoxicated . |
| 15 | Er , Professor is right erm there may always be a possibility that at some time er you have to you have to recognise that there may be excess capacity in the system and I I do n't believe that the Labour party is not prepared to recognise that there may well be excess capacity in the system at some time . |
| 16 | I do not believe that the current management at British Rail is capable of building the project , although I believe that it needs building . |
| 17 | We do not believe that the mental element can be substantiated by simply showing an intent to apply force and no more . " |
| 18 | On the general point , I do not believe that the substantial improvement in productivity has arisen through a reduction in the number of disabled people in the mines . |
| 19 | I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police . |
| 20 | She could well believe that the betrayed husband had taken his ultimate revenge centuries before . |
| 21 | Alternatively , he may believe that the inefficient use of scarce resources brought about by regulating insider dealing is immoral . |
| 22 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |
| 23 | Some part of Sisson 's censures must surely be conceded : whatever esteem we have and should have for Gavin Douglas 's translation of the Aeneid , we can hardly believe that the Philadelphian Ezra Pound was any more at ease than most of us with Bishop Douglas 's sixteenth-century Scots . |
| 24 | We do not believe that the orthodox account provides a satisfactory explanation of the crisis , for reasons we shall be giving shortly . |
| 25 | In the worst passages of his despair , Tuck could believe that the little bugger had learned to be a maverick from his father . |
| 26 | Cos there are people in Britain who simply do n't believe that the public sector can be as efficient as the private sector . |
| 27 | I do not believe that the British public are prepared to move to a property tax . |
| 28 | A person may falsely believe that the horizontal moon , because it is perceived as being larger , must be presenting a larger appearance . |
| 29 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |
| 30 | I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman correctly states the law . |