Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is less easy to believe that the large scale migrations of birds are accomplished by memorized landmarks and home cues than are those of the digger wasp and salmon . |
| 2 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 3 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 4 | Now I 'm not so stupid to believe that we 'll always necessarily agree on how those objectives should be met . |
| 5 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 6 | Oh , how could she have let herself be so easily tricked , so eager to believe that he had changed ? |
| 7 | The most cautious believe that it will stabilise at between 0.5 and one per cent of the total beer market and even the most bullish say that it will take more than five years to reach four per cent . |
| 8 | It seems somehow presumptuous to believe that in 1989 Europe has emerged into a cloudless world in which such things are now no longer possible . |
| 9 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 10 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 11 | Tamar looked down at the child , scarcely able to believe that it was all over so quickly . |
| 12 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 13 | It is not necessary to believe that Christ will be here tomorrow , although it may help to believe that he will be here some time . |
| 14 | One is not obliged to believe that Freemantle was a good poet . |
| 15 | As ever , the people who will suffer from Labour 's failure are among those who are furthest removed from the political process ; who are most likely to believe that the outcome of the election has little to do with them ; and , hence , who are least likely to be taking part in the election postmortem on why Labour lost . |
| 16 | Not only that , as men of power , pillars of the community , they are most likely to believe that they can get away with it without getting caught . |
| 17 | The proposed flat fee might seem sufficient to some by today 's standards ; but can even the most naive believe that it will be raised regularly in line with inflation ? |
| 18 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |
| 19 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 20 | It was still hard to believe that the pod was not going to be destroyed before it reached the ground . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps she 'll write to us , ’ Julia said , still unable to believe that her sister would just disappear . |
| 22 | Then I am standing in Aisha 's house with its Moroccan furniture and Moroccan smell , hardly able to believe that I 'm in London , having braved the customs official who turned my passport over and over in his hands . |
| 23 | Harriet gave her head a small shake , hardly able to believe that even he could be quite so coldly dismissive . |
| 24 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 25 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 26 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |
| 27 | In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare . |
| 28 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
| 29 | It 's also hard to believe that someone who would use a lap-top computer would forget where he left it . ’ |
| 30 | It is similarly naive to believe that management who have relied on these external services will necessarily be able to control them when they are brought in-house |