Example sentences of "[am/are] believe that " in BNC.

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1 Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know .
2 Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over .
3 A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously .
4 He immediately set off and arrived that night at Lesnes Abbey in Erith , with his household , and if we are to believe that he walked the whole way , it was a goodly walk for a bishop .
5 ‘ I am to believe that they dare to send you on an assignment without discussing it with you , señorita ?
6 But if I am to believe that , when the Minister replies to the debate she will have to commit herself to two very simple propositions : first , that the Government will institute a full review of student financial support as a matter of urgency ; secondly , that they will commit themselves to restoring to all students the housing benefit and income support that the Government have taken away from them .
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