Example sentences of "[adv] believe that the " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 Experienced as these riders were , they could not believe that the drugs would make the captives docile .
32 In the case of the ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ I do not believe that the majority of international referees would intentionally take biased decisions in favour of one side simply because they happen to speak the same language .
33 Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ .
34 The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc does not believe that the folks across the Pacific should be the only ones to have universally available full broadband ISDN by the year 2015 , and it says it is discussing forming alliances with cable companies to help in the building of a super data highway in California over the next decade .
35 Although individual consent was of central importance to Hobbes , he did not believe that the authority of law rested on the fact that it promoted a desirable objective or that it reflected a profound truth .
36 The Royal Commission did not believe that the existing local authorities were in a position to meet the challenges they had identified .
37 If war broke out he did not believe that the Soviet Union would mount a localised attack on Japan .
38 To put this differently and more technically , I do not believe that the causal nexus of history , or that of nature , could be broken .
39 I do not believe that the uniqueness which Christians attribute to Christ is possible .
40 I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken .
41 ‘ As of today , we do not believe that the declaration of a state of emergency would increase that flow of supplies , food , or materials .
42 I do not believe that the training credits or voucher system being piloted in England will work .
43 Before mid-summer Baldwin did not believe that the Government could last beyond the autumn , but he was still hoping that he could get his Aix holiday .
44 She did not believe that the wicked could be caught by ten-year-old children and returned to the police station in exchange for a pony , any more than she believed that constant hot water would make young mothers smile constantly with relief and proud love .
45 We do not believe that the connection between cause and effect is logical or conceptual , despite the fact that an event or thing may be defined in terms of its effect .
46 In many cases , I do not believe that the return from spending an extra £5000 or £10000 on producing a commercial — rather than on showing it — can easily be justified .
47 C. Wright Mills saw professionals as increasingly becoming the servants of the rich and powerful , but he did not believe that the individual professionals themselves were losing their power and influence .
48 We do not believe that the orthodox account provides a satisfactory explanation of the crisis , for reasons we shall be giving shortly .
49 As we shall be explaining in the following chapters , we do not believe that the steps taken in the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 will prove drastic enough .
50 ‘ I can not believe that the legislature ever intended that the powers contained in paragraph 1 , with the sanction of criminal penalties , should or could be invoked to obtain information or documents of a potentially incriminating nature from one who had already been cautioned and charged with offences under the Act …
51 I believe that the government do recognise that there are six million unpaid carers , er I believe that the government depend very heavily upon these six million people , and I do not believe that the government intend to reward them .
52 ‘ After all of that , I simply can not believe that the fell was not named after you — if not in tribute then in anticipation . ’
53 But we do not believe that the pursuit of national efficiency can be ranked much lower — not least because without it the human rights themselves will not be secure .
54 But I could not believe that the policy went unchallenged when there still was scope for negotiation and diplomatic intervention ; yet the Government seemed unwilling to try either .
55 I mean I can not believe that the guy
56 He simply could not believe that the Creator had done separate miracles in order to provide each of these insignificant islands with its own species of finch or mocking-bird .
57 Ambassador Bonsal states , ‘ I do not believe that the Russians would have taken sugar from Cuba which the United States was prepared to purchase .
58 And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time .
59 The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family .
60 Do not denigrate our streets as terrible after just one day in Birmingham ; do not believe that the only person you will find reading a book will be a ‘ broken winged angel ’ guarding a tomb in the city centre !
  Previous page   Next page