Example sentences of "[noun pl] do not believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Structuralists did not believe in examining the text in relation to society — although they did believe in examining the relationships within texts and between texts — nor in examining it as a work with moral significance ; the aim was simply to lay bare the universal structures which were hidden within it . |
| 2 | Sri Lankans did not believe that it was morally wrong to convict a known cattle thief on false evidence , and officials often complained that true cases were spoilt by complainants who added additional false evidence . |
| 3 | Her parents did not believe her story but , when she said it had happened again , her father secretly observed her . |
| 4 | These unusual circumstances , and cases of corrupt diversion of corporate assets aside , however , it will in general be very difficult to demonstrate that the directors did not believe that what they were doing would maximise profits , because of the often insuperable problem of distinguishing between means and ends that this entails . |
| 5 | Quantum Corp , Milpitas does not believe its disk drives infringe Rodime Plc patents and it is counter-suing the Scottish company , asking the US Court for the District of Minnesota to declare the patent not infringed and anyway unenforceable . |
| 6 | ' ( But as we know , a great many Christians caught up in talking about social activism of various kinds do not believe in the Devil . ) |
| 7 | Could it be their governments do not believe that the Iraqi regime will eventually be forced to make good the costs of the operation ? |
| 8 | The powers-that-were did not believe in explanation . |
| 9 | Many Egyptians do not believe it . |
| 10 | Investors did not believe what they read in annual company reports . |
| 11 | Ludens did not believe in any personal God , least of all in the unattractive authoritarian figure of Jehovah . |
| 12 | Yet many names do not believe that the losses for which they are being asked to stump up were incurred just through bad luck . |
| 13 | Studies conducted by PHC Nursing ( PHCN ) students between 1987 and 1988 showed that villagers did not believe in ORS but would carry the solution in the litre bottle to the clinic to ‘ show ’ the nurse otherwise she would not give her child muti ( medicine ) . |
| 14 | When Weismann first put it forward at the beginning of the century , it was highly controversial , and most scientists did not believe it . |
| 15 | Opposition Members do not believe that is very generous because we know that the cost of putting together a serious buy-out offer is likely to be nearer to £250,000 . |
| 16 | I hope that Opposition Members do not believe that Conservative Members neither understand nor care about the personal circumstances of those who , tragically , have lost their jobs . |
| 17 | The New Critics did not believe , of course , that the value of poetry lay in isolated metaphors or similes ; on the contrary , they insisted that in good literature all the components of the text contributed to the reconciliation of opposites that constitutes its poetic function . |
| 18 | Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims . |
| 19 | I know you come from America , and you Americans do not believe in things like that . |
| 20 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Most experts do not believe that the USSR can increase oil production much above the present level due to cumbersome bureaucracy , failure to find new reserves and shortage of sophisticated drilling equipment . |
| 23 | Treatment of non-specific infection in women is the same as for men , although some clinics do not believe that female contacts should be treated . |
| 24 | He was not a fanciful man ( the Longhands did not believe in fancies ) , but he felt as if it was a miasma rising from a swamp , a sickness and a corruption . |
| 25 | Police do not believe it was the work of Colombian drug lords Photograph ( omitted ) : |
| 26 | Earlier on Friday evening there was trouble at Colchester United 's match with Cardiff City at Layer Road , but the police do not believe the assault was football-related . |
| 27 | For example , in two cases the attackers pretended to be taxi-drivers , but it was stated that ‘ police do not believe the assaults [ on a 17-year-old girl and a woman aged 25 ] were linked ’ ( Daily Mail ) . |
| 28 | But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy . |
| 29 | The spirit of our times does not believe in the sacrifice of private happiness for public duty , and this can be taken as a sign of moral decline . |
| 30 | Environmentalists do not believe that this phase-out is fast enough . |