Example sentences of "people believe to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a world of difference between ham that has been sliced from the bone or cut from a joint on a machine and the pre-packaged wet and tasteless substance that so many people believe to be ham . |
| 2 | At the same time , using Todorov 's distinction , it does seem possible in relation to television narrative genres or subgenres to identify classical tendencies which depend — in the last instance — on conformity to rules and conventions for their verisimilitude , and to distinguish them from naturalist tendencies whose verisimilitude makes claims to be grounded in social reality — or at least claims to represent what people believe to be true . |
| 3 | On US television , it may be the crime series subgenre which comes closest to naturalist verisimilitude , and certainly the eighties generation of Hill Street Blues and Cagney and Lacey ( 1981–8 ) seemed to resemble more closely what people believe to be true than the more apparently formulaic structures of Kojak ( 1973–7 ) , Starksy and Hutch ( 1975–80 ) and Charlie 's Angels ( 1976–81 ) or the more obviously cinematic forms of Dragnet ( 1951–8 ) . |
| 4 | Generic convention , that is , gives up its claim to refer to a world outside television , or to ‘ what people believe to be true ’ , and internalizes its play . |
| 5 | What many people believe to be stimulation is actually a loss of inhibition that normally controls their social behaviour . |