Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] to believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with Firebrands , Isca and Brean now in the National League , more clubs are likely to believe that the regional competition needs to be strengthened . |
| 2 | Most lawyers will tell you that ‘ cast iron ’ prospects of success are much less common than their clients are apt to believe . |
| 3 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 4 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 5 | And we found that many parents were inclined to believe these kinds of reports , and yet this just was n't true if one saw what was going on in the schools . |
| 6 | In the evening they walked home to Stowey in the summer moonlight ‘ through echoing grove , by fairy stream or waterfall ’ — Coleridge lamenting that Wordsworth was unwilling to believe in local superstitions , ‘ and that there was a something corporeal , a matter-of-fact-ness , a clinging to the palpable , or often to the petty , in his poetry , in consequence ’ . |
| 7 | Even many voters who could n't bring themselves to endorse him last November are prepared to believe in what he calls the politics of hope . |
| 8 | If the real wage rate has temporarily risen , as workers are supposed to believe , employers will have the incentive to take on fewer workers . |
| 9 | From what she had seen of Araminta , Theda was ready to believe it . |
| 10 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 11 | whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked . |
| 12 | This is a hard part to prove and where the evidence of intent falls short the point at 7 following , i.e. ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe … ’ could be charged or reported . |
| 13 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence ( i.e. immediate unlawful violence against him or another ) will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 17 | Whereby that person is likely to believe |
| 18 | Only a stupid person is likely to believe that . |
| 19 | This is the stage , sadly , when many people are ready to believe that they can be put in touch with the relative or friend who has died , and consult faith healers who make all sorts of promises . |
| 20 | People can believe in something strongly without assuming that therefore other people are wrong to believe something else . |
| 21 | Many of those whose professional work involves care for old people are prone to believe that there was once an extended family system in this country whereby successive generations of kin lived together , the younger ones caring lovingly for the oldest . |
| 22 | Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe . |
| 23 | The chronicler William of Newburgh was disposed to believe that King Sverre of Norway had brought about the destruction of King Magnus 's fleet in 1186 by invoking the Devil . |
| 24 | As the Danish scholar Per Nykrog has observed , however , the corpus of fabliaux seems to be constituted of a certain stock of recognized tales rather than being the product of widespread and prolific extemporization as Bédier was inclined to believe . |
| 25 | The situation in England was quite different at this time , and illustrates the principle that the horizons of what scholars are prepared to believe about musical performance in the past can be set by what their contemporaries among performers are able to provide . |
| 26 | If a policeman encounters a person using threatening language against another , he must make a judgment as to whether or not the addressee of the threats is likely to believe that the threats will be implemented . |
| 27 | a good deal of egocentricity and naivety is necessary to believe that man has taken refuge in a single one of the historical or geographical modes of his existence , when the truth about man resides in the system of their differences and common properties . |
| 28 | Whereas people throughout the communist world were inclined to believe the opposite of what their masters told them ( e.g. Pinochet was a good democrat — why else would ‘ They ’ abuse him ? ) , very often their scepticism collapsed in the face of an unsubstantiated rumour . |
| 29 | Even if the defendant himself can plausibly say that he did not intend to use violence , it is sufficient if he uses the language or behaviour in a situation where the addressee is likely to believe that violence will be used against him either by the speaker or by other persons . |
| 30 | Only the dwindling band of loyal Conservative voters was likely to believe that the increase in charges compared with the rates was the responsibility of profligate local authorities . |