Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not believe their blood was consecrated . ’ |
| 2 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 3 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous communist leadership . |
| 4 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous Communist leadership . |
| 5 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous communist leadership of which he was a vital part . |
| 6 | In one recent poll 399 out of 400 patients at the Centre for Radiation Studies in Kiev said they did not believe what their doctors told them . |
| 7 | When she said she did not know ( which was true , for a long time ) they did not believe her . |
| 8 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 9 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |
| 10 | But , given the destructive power of modern weapons , they did not believe that civilization could be protected by war . |
| 11 | They did not believe in the coming of the Messiah , especially the popular idea of the Messiah who would free the people from the Romans . |
| 12 | They did not believe in any form of resurrection . |
| 13 | They did not believe in any form of resurrection yet they asked a question concerning this topic . |
| 14 | A top firm of criminal lawyers told us they did not believe that the chances of a successful prosecution fell below 50 per cent — the CPS 's normal test . |
| 15 | The Committee point out that a ‘ general ban on twin-tracking would deprive 3 million people of the right to be a councillor ’ ( Widdicombe 1986:112 ) and they did not believe this to be justified . |
| 16 | Some of it they did not believe ; some of it she did not report . |
| 17 | And when I told them that in my country there were millions just like me , they did not believe me , but just smiled . |
| 18 | They did not believe , therefore , as the structuralists do , that structure in literature is a wholly closed system , and that language is a prison-house that shuts us away from reality . |
| 19 | The reason which they gave to me was that they did not believe that a man with my social background could win a General Election for the Conservative Party at that time in the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Today the judge dismissed reports from two psychiatrists who said they did not believe Bourgois was dangerous . |
| 21 | Two psychiatrists said that although Bourgois was mentally ill they did not believe he needed to be detained further . |
| 22 | Needless to say they did n't believe my story . |
| 23 | They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month . |
| 24 | They did n't believe the names of some of the acts ; Dulcie Laing , the serio and legmania dancer , Mademoiselle Hilarius and her demon pig Tordaunt , so we used to do impersonations of them … |
| 25 | They were meant to be devoid of personal feelings , deadpan , like lawyers who had to defend a case they did n't believe in , who went home at the end of the day leaving all their patients ' foibles filed away in their consulting rooms . |
| 26 | They kept staring at him , as if they did n't believe what they were seeing . |
| 27 | It seems the Reillys , who live in Dorset , stockpiled their life savings in the car because they did n't believe in banks or building societies . |
| 28 | ‘ They are responsible for a lot of the machine tools that we have now , ’ Gerwyn says , ‘ and they developed them because they did n't believe in wasted labour . |
| 29 | And we would not be asking the parents to say things they did n't believe or make promises that they had no intention of fulfilling . |
| 30 | They did n't believe in things like that any more , but neither of them made any move to get out of the car . |