Example sentences of "my belief [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ARSENAL 'S run to the top of the Premier League confirms my belief that they will wrap up the title for George Graham by Easter .
2 It is still my belief that we must continue to develop our liaison with all sectors of the funeral service , to further promote the importance of embalming .
3 However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack .
4 I can not do not think I am can be mistaken in my belief that our meeting was also important interesting to you , and that however much you may value your seclusion
5 It is my belief that our life preparation students are not ‘ valued ’ by many colleagues , so how would they react to learners seen to be ‘ less able ’ or more difficult to cope with ?
6 However , even though it expresses my belief that you did steal the money , the distinctively ethical role of the sentence is to express my attitude of disfavour towards you for this act .
7 In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history .
8 Firstly because of the cost , and secondly because I was firm in my belief that there was no substitute for a reliable watch , an accurate depth gauge and a thorough working knowledge of a well proven set of decompression tables .
9 Austin mooted the idea that on occasion what justifies my belief that there is a pig before me is just the pig ( Austin , 1962 , pp. 115- 16 ) .
10 We fully support and endorse the deposit greenbelt boundaries , then I think it 's inescapable that at at some point that is going to lead us to leapfrogging over the greenbelt boundary , at some stage during the the the plan period , there may well be sufficient erm commitment and identified sites to mop up in in the short term , but by the end of of the plan period it 's it 's my belief that there will be a need to address this issue by bringing forward proposals for a new settlement , er which obviously Selby district er full fully supports .
11 I had been quite right in my belief that she would not relish the intervention of the Prime Minister .
12 If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase .
13 With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years .
14 Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining .
15 ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . )
16 My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise .
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