Example sentences of "believe that it [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably you also believed that it might be possible to negotiate some form of multilateral disarmament in the region ? |
| 2 | For a long time , I believed that it would be possible to overthrow the Irish regime by English working class ascendancy … |
| 3 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 4 | In order to make it suitable , Minto believed that it would be necessary to build on at least two extra rooms . |
| 5 | On the other hand , many commentators believed that it would be disastrous for the Republicans to nominate Reagan encumbered as he supposedly was by three disadvantages : his lack of experience of national office , his age and , most importantly , his identification with the extreme right of his party . |
| 6 | It would have been wrong to propose abolition , and in any case no member of the Commission in fact believed that it should be illegal for a parent to spend money on a child 's education . |
| 7 | The Home Office may think it necessary on security grounds to make regular changes , perhaps believing that it would be undesirable for the routines of governors to be known to the general public . |
| 8 | The Commission does not believe that it would be fruitful simply to gauge individual local authorities ' spending levels against aggregate spending levels ( 1983 , p. 17 ) : |
| 9 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 10 | ‘ The Government does not believe that it would be right for this case to be treated as a precedent . ’ |
| 11 | I do not believe that it would be right to reverse this long line of authority and declare that certiorari should now lie to reverse the decision of a visitor on a question of law . |
| 12 | I do not believe that it would be lawful unless it were underpinned by some appropriate resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations . |
| 13 | Does he believe that it would be safe in the hands of Members of Parliament who continually carp and criticise ? |
| 14 | I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book . |
| 15 | If the UK has its way , then the Directive should have little impact , for it notes , ‘ We do not believe that it will be necessary to apply measures in the UK to protect waters from eutrophication due to nitrate . ’ |
| 16 | Now you can not force the client to take that into account and read and understand it , but I do believe that it will be possible for you , in writing to the client , to explain the advantages and the extras which you are incorporating within your er proposed scheme which you feel are absolutely fundamental to the correct working of the project . |
| 17 | ‘ If the new unitary authorities are geographically small , I do not believe that it will be possible to provide an effective and efficient planning service for the people , and that has always been the aim of the planner , since planning means people , ’ said Mr Havard . |
| 18 | He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions . |
| 19 | We believe that it would be good for work in Britain . |
| 20 | We believe that it would be right for much of the communication between teachers and parents to take that form at the reporting ages and between them . |
| 21 | I firmly believe that it would be impossible to deliver that objective , even had we wanted it . |
| 22 | In the meantime , I believe that it would be rash to read too much into the opinion by taking it out of its narrow context . |
| 23 | We also believe that it would be inappropriate for performance in drama at those levels to detract from a higher level of performance for spoken English as a whole . |
| 24 | We are concerned about nurse education , which is why we believe that it will be crippling for the NHS and for the nation 's health if , in years to come , we have poorly trained nurses who leave the profession because they are denied the opportunity of advancement and the capacity adequately to treat patients . |
| 25 | They believe that it will be fine so long as more money is put into it . |
| 26 | We believe that British Coal can achieve a significant share of the coal market for generation in the new contracts which begin in 1993 , and we believe that it will be able to achieve that at competitive prices . |
| 27 | Fosbrooke even believed that it might be possible to educate them without danger to the state . |
| 28 | It believes that it should be free to unite with other district councils , as it sees fit , to provide wider services , rather than have them imposed by Whitehall and central Government . |