Example sentences of "belief that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 2 | The inner game approach rests on the belief that the correct technique can and does develop naturally and painlessly given the opportunity and the right environment . |
| 3 | The former belief that the Prime Minister was prim us inter pares ( first among equals ) has given way to the realisation that the office-holder is primum mobile ( the first mover ) . |
| 4 | Today comparative studies of the whole sea squirt group , which is large and varied , have led to the belief that the second possibility is the correct one . |
| 5 | Mr Spring stressed his belief that the Anglo-Irish Agreement was ‘ very important ’ and insisted that it had a future . |
| 6 | Unless there are an appreciable number of genuine deaths from asthma in people aged over 65 this supports my belief that the annual number of deaths due to asthma nationally is nearer 500 than 2000 ( even allowing for some genuine deaths from asthma not certified as such and given that some areas such as West Cumbria and perhaps Hertfordshire seem to have a lower mortality than Norwich ) . |
| 7 | The belief that the liberal East Coast intelligentsia is ruining the country is rife across the country and will be affecting cultural policies at their broadest from city hall to the White House before and after the election . |
| 8 | Equally , triumphalism of the dotty kind has not been in evidence at all ; nobody , for example , has let slip the belief that the present knowledge of genetics is so certain and detailed that the future of the human race can now be predicted . |
| 9 | This is how he ended an equally memorable contribution to the debate on the Maastricht Treaty on 19 December 1991 ; after restating his belief that the highest form of democracy is ‘ self-government ’ through Parliament , he concluded : |
| 10 | It 's almost as if some teachers hold the belief that the best parents are those that are docile and ignorant about the school , leaving the professionals to get on with the job . |
| 11 | Having reached a certain level of proficiency , I decided to experiment with mathematical curves for my bowl designs , combining my interest in mathematics and the belief that the best solutions are often associated with simplicity . |
| 12 | Now it happens that everyone 's instinctive belief that the best site is at the ‘ centre of gravity ’ of the sources and markets is incorrect in this problem — the best site tends to be at the source or at a dominant market in many cases : this point failed totally to emerge . |
| 13 | They express the belief that the early Christians had in and about Jesus . |
| 14 | Moreover , the results have reinforced the belief that the general equilibrium effects are potentially important and can be safely ignored only in special circumstances ( this , we shall see , is even more true in the long-run models explored in the next Lecture ) . |
| 15 | Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward . |
| 16 | Linked with this idea was the belief that the economic structure of society must be changed first . |
| 17 | As for the supposedly curative hair of the dog , this stems from the ancient belief that the only cure for an infected dog bite was a poultice of milk , bread and fur from the offending animal . |
| 18 | Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule . |
| 19 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 20 | The belief that the unconscious mind is wise and good , and that it can be identified with God , is another signpost , false though its trail is . |
| 21 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 22 | But the Arab nationalist belief that the two countries contain one Arab people — that there was therefore something immutably wrong in the creation of Greater Lebanon — has never been abandoned . |
| 23 | One of the reasons for the slow advance in understanding syphilis and gonorrhoea was the belief that the two conditions were simply different manifestations of the same disease . |
| 24 | Ann worked in British West Hartlepool : severely shelled during World War I , home of Andy Cap and where they hung a shipwrecked monkey in Napoleonic times , in the belief that the poor beast was a Frenchman . |
| 25 | It is the evaluators ' belief that the impressive rhetoric contained in this part of the proposal describes an ideal which the school could not realistically be expected to achieve , without an across-the-board change amounting to a curriculum revolution . |
| 26 | ‘ ( a ) A person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse . |
| 27 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 28 | Each side would like mutual disarmament , but will be deterred from making any move in that direction by the belief that the other side would cheat , and thereby gain an arms advantage . |
| 29 | Although this was commuted to house arrest , Galileo remained embittered in the belief that the other side of the bargain had not been kept . |
| 30 | The charge sheet cited " organizational motive " as the prime cause for Gandhi 's murder , together with a belief that the Tamil cause had been let down by India . |