Example sentences of "believe that he would " in BNC.

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1 He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful .
2 In Willmott v. Atack the defendant intervened as the police were in the course of effecting an arrest because he believed that he would be able to persuade the person being arrested to cooperate .
3 Thus , where the tenant had been innocently misled into believing that he would obtain a long term , and had invested heavily in the property next door , whereas the landlord in fact had plans for immediate redevelopment , the Court of Appeal upheld an order for a break-clause exercisable after the first three years of the term ( Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 243 ) .
4 ‘ Well , not exactly , ’ Miss Honey said , hesitating , ‘ You see , no one could believe that he would ever have done it .
5 However , Turner does n't believe that he would have arrived at such a conclusion if he had continued to live and write in Ireland .
6 It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year .
7 And she could not believe that he would marry Honoria Greville , might even throw her off if he knew what she had done , which was to lose him his heiress .
8 He was led to believe that he would receive better than a university education with Mr. Wickstead as his personal tutor .
9 Dad had lasted so long , it was tempting to believe that he would last for ever .
10 So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol .
11 He was able to plan with precision and enthusiasm the date of his own retirement , to look forward to it because it was in no way forced upon him , and to believe that he would be remembered with affection and regret .
12 ‘ I have known Alain all his life and I find it impossible to believe that he would commit suicide .
13 There is every reason to believe that he would have pursued his policy even if it had been unpopular ( as it temporarily became in 1967 ) .
14 The relationship between waiver and equitable estoppel is obvious , as Denning LJ pointed out in Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim [ 1950 ] 1 KB 616 ( at p623 ) : If the defendant , as he did , led the plaintiffs to believe that he would not insist on the stipulation as to time , and that , if they carried out the work , he would accept it , and they did it , he could not afterwards set up the stipulation as to the time against them .
15 Erm that we had no alternative to do what we did er that C I D officers would speak to him and I believe that he would better understand er wh why we have done what we did er and I assured him that the damage to his door will would be repaired .
16 It was also widely believed that he would have become the laibon after his father 's death .
17 A former member of his Household , reviewing the collapse of the Wales 's marriage , sincerely believes that he would have remained single if he had been given the choice .
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