Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] believe in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God . |
| 2 | In one such performance , James Luna promises to combine ‘ Indian mythology , Christian evangelism , and psychoanalysis to create a double-edged interpretation that has ‘ something for everyone who has ever believed in the romantic vision of the American Indian and bought into the guilt-complex of American history ’ ’ ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Ossie has attempted to play the game in the attractive way he has always believed in , ’ said O'Neill . |
| 4 | In an exchange of letters Rothermere said he could no longer support a movement which was becoming increasingly to believe in dictatorship , anti-semitism and the corporate state . |
| 5 | Almost everybody throughout history , up to the second half of the nineteenth century , has firmly believed in the opposite — the Conscious Designer theory . |
| 6 | This trade unionism came eventually to believe in the need for parliamentary representation to safeguard its interests , and from the start determined the course of political intervention . |
| 7 | In just the same way a lot of your friends may choose not to believe in God … or Jesus … or angels … or evil spirits , and they may even try to convince you that they are right ! |
| 8 | She 'd always believed in the strength of her parents ' marriage , the power of its mutual affection . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've grown up believing in God . |
| 10 | I 've grown up believing in God . |
| 11 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 12 | I was brought up to believe in niceness the way other people believe in God . |
| 13 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 14 | Jim Hegan , one of the three , says of the day he was convicted : ‘ Everything that I was brought up to believe in respect for law and order and the RUCwas shattered . |
| 15 | But when love fails us , we must still go on believing in it . |
| 16 | With the ground rushing up to meet him , Mr Gorbachev must decide between the revolution he grew up believing in and the welfare of the people in whose name that revolution was made . |
| 17 | I thought plenty believe in fresh meat and that . |
| 18 | The sergeant wondered aloud whether Maggie Parkin did secretly believe in her husband 's guilt . |
| 19 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 20 | She dared not believe in the warmth and tenderness she saw in Matthew 's eyes . |
| 21 | But the Chancellor said in a series of television and radio interviews that he did not believe in ‘ trying to play silly games , political games ’ — and he would not rule out a further increase if it became necessary . |
| 22 | Frank said that he did not believe in God ; such a belief can not possibly be proved ; the good life is possible without it ; and the only faculty to judge is the reason , which tells us to say , we do not know . |
| 23 | She wanted to say , ‘ Because of Maggie and Rachel and Lisa and the garden and duty and sunshine , ’ but alone in the darkness she did not believe in any of that . |
| 24 | He disliked the ethos of Irish Protestantism and he did not believe in its doctrines . |
| 25 | Let us keep our meditation simple by discounting various facts fact , for example , that most of Christ 's Jewish contemporaries did not believe in His divinity or join the newly founded Christian Church or sect . |
| 26 | He did not believe in the 1952 Global Strategy paper 's concept of a period of ‘ broken-backed war ’ after an indecisive nuclear exchange in Europe that would give the Navy a worthwhile role in the Atlantic in global war . |
| 27 | It concerned a man who did not believe in real divorces . |
| 28 | God speaks to Moses again and to Aaron : ‘ Because you did not believe in me , to sanctify me in the eyes of the people of Israel , therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them . ’ |
| 29 | As for what I meant by progressive methods , he did not believe in just filling children with data , if that 's what I meant . |
| 30 | Ludens did not believe in any personal God , least of all in the unattractive authoritarian figure of Jehovah . |