Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [adv] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque . |
| 2 | ‘ And you really think I 'm stupid enough to believe that — what was it , blackmail ? — would get me the very thing you think I desire ? |
| 3 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 4 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |
| 5 | Even so , if the sequence is to come off it will have to be stage-managed to some extent : children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus are not old enough to carry the action on their own without the help of an adult to keep things moving . |
| 6 | If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever . |
| 7 | Maybe you 're fool enough to believe she loves you . |
| 8 | Any man who 's fool enough to believe that a model 's doing anything but her job on the catwalk — ’ His laughter stopped her in mid-sentence . |
| 9 | And we 're old-fashioned enough to believe that children come after marriage , not before . ’ |
| 10 | In times like these they are frightened enough to believe anything . ’ |
| 11 | He had an irrepressible tendency to send up his interviewers : if they were daft enough to believe it — so much the worse for them . |
| 12 | The regions are far too big and complex to be handled from Detroit and even if they were foolish enough to believe that they could do it more effectively — which they ca n't — they would be crazy to try . ’ |
| 13 | It was hard enough to believe now , myself . |