Example sentences of "reason believe that a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Joan Thirsk 's brilliant examination of these variations , region by region , illustrates this for the period from 1500 onwards ( 103 , pp.1–112 ) , and there is no reason to believe that a similar diversity did not exist at the earlier period also , although there were probably changes in detail in particular areas , such as those caused by climatic change to which allusion was made in Chapter 1 .
2 There is no reason to believe that a new chancellor would make Britain richer .
3 Bristol had been dominated by the Whigs since 1695 , and had fallen to the Tories only in 1710 in the Sacheverellite backlash , so Daines had good reason to believe that a careful cultivation of the electorate could pay dividends .
4 However , just as basic systems theory suggests that every system begins and ends with the individual and , therefore , that all systems are circular , there is good reason to believe that a common policy for education can only be arrived at by looking at the array of experiences of different individuals instead of others ' perceptions of these experiences .
5 There is no reason to believe that an increasing disparity between the standards of morality and behaviour which one has grown up to believe were true and right and those displayed and legitimated in the surrounding society can not of itself provide the ground for commitment to a movement of moral reform .
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