Example sentences of "believe [art] [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | One caller believed the man had recently been on an internal flight in Britain and could now be in the south of England . |
| 2 | The survey , sponsored by Pannell Kerr Forster , the East Midlands Tourist Board ( EMTB ) and Nottingham Polytechnic showed that 63% of all hotels in the region believed the UBR had a detrimental effect on business . |
| 3 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 4 | Deep in his heart Wishart believed the King had been murdered but he did not know how , or why , or by whom . |
| 5 | Peter Preston , editor of The Guardian newspaper and a member of the watchdog Press Complaints Commission , said he believed The Sun had not broken the speech embargo but had simply published a story ahead of time . |
| 6 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 7 | The Council issued a statement on 13 September , correcting some points in the press reports , emphasizing that the visiting party had indicated that it believed the Polytechnic had ‘ the potential to rectify the grave situation in which it finds itself , and stressing that the visiting party had not suggested that courses as currently taught were below an acceptable standard . |
| 8 | Further , he believed the Board had no evidence of other successful experience in partnership with the WEA which might offset or counter Watts 's trenchant criticism . |
| 9 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 10 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 11 | For a while I believed the bust-up had done the trick . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 13 | He was unable to tell Mr Gannon 's family how long the infection had been present but he believed the infection had spread through Mr Gannon 's blood rather than through any internal rupture . |
| 14 | One of them grabbed the youth by the neck as he approached a police van in Tarling Street , Stepney , east London , telling officers he believed the youth had been involved in an attack on an elderly woman . |
| 15 | He told her he believed the Lord had sent her to teach and counsel a group . |
| 16 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 17 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 18 | But Major , who will be meeting the IOC president , Juan Antonio Samaranch , in Lausanne in April to push Manchester 's case , said he believed the city had come from ‘ overwhelming underdogs ’ last year to become joint favourites with Sydney and Peking . |
| 19 | It said 56 per cent of those asked believed the president had misled the public during last year 's election campaign when he said he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his programmes . |
| 20 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 21 | I believed the military had notified pilots that a military exercise was taking place so the pilopts were on general alert . |
| 22 | She believed the department had left itself extremely vulnerable in acting without any form of approval by the committee . |
| 23 | He had made it clear at Beechwood that he believed the paper had to be pop , pop , pop if it was going to sell a million . |
| 24 | Richard Taylor , who runs Haden Mac Lellan 's automated manufacturing systems division , left for the Far East in mid-April in good spirits , believing the recession had bottomed out . |
| 25 | She had informed Elizabeth Mowbray of the girls ' exchange of identities — information which the duchess had received thankfully , believing the exchange to have been necessary for Anne 's safety . |
| 26 | The scene may be more easily pictured than described , each believing the other had been killed , ‘ … that their raptures on meeting were almost ludicrous ( sic ) … ’ . |
| 27 | ca n't believe the tunnel has really collapsed : |
| 28 | And he added : ‘ I do believe the public has a right to know , not least because she is largely financed by the taxpayer . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I hope you do n't believe the success has gone to my head , ’ he says demurely . |
| 30 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |