Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [verb] believe " in BNC.

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1 You know how to make a man hungry , Maggie Howard , and I am really beginning to believe that you are not aware at all of the consequences . ’
2 I am much induced to believe that from an examination of the foreign correspondence of that Society ( of which W. Watson of Bartlett 's Buildings is sollicitor ) [ sic ] some traces might be found which might lead to discover some of Mr. Stone 's accomplices .
3 ‘ And I 'm really expected to believe that Donal , of his own bat , sent me to Wexford to meet you , knowing you were about to seek out my family , just to be friendly ?
4 You are obviously determined to believe that I deliberately and maliciously set out to destroy you , knowing as I did how much you had already been hurt . ’
5 You 're either going to believe me or you 're not .
6 And , ’ her blush deepened , ‘ you 're obviously determined to believe the worst of me where both Giles and Clive are concerned . ’
7 She did n't reply and Adam saw she was desperately trying to believe him .
8 The cosy fug of the Music Halls , the barrel-organ streets , the unhurried pace of a horse-drawn civilisation — before the motor car , before the cinema , before the sweeping changes of the twentieth century and their attendant disorientations — here , we are repeatedly encouraged to believe , is the original home of ‘ Old England ’ and a life ordered by tradition and familiarity .
9 In this area of discussion too there may be a closer theistic structure between the two religious groupings than we are often led to believe .
10 No amount of regulation or changes to the law will prevent the type of corporate failures which the public , however illogically , assume to be conclusive evidence of audit failures , and judging by the Government 's reluctance to relax the statutory audit requirement for small companies , there may , in any case , be less dissatisfaction with the quality of auditing than we are sometimes led to believe .
11 We were always led to believe there were no survivors when the Lorelei blew up .
12 Her brother , who will be seven years old next February , is such an extraordinary phenomenon that one is hard put to believe what one sees with one 's eyes and hears with one 's ears .
13 No one is ever going to believe you are totally innocent over this , and the sort of publicity the fuel blend failure attracted this afternoon is extremely damaging , as I 'm sure you are aware .
14 The English are sometimes accustomed to think , indeed , they are often taught to believe , that their Parliament began with Simon de Montfort .
15 They 're never going to believe this at home ! ’
16 Thus , although the US had been told by the French not only that there was no question of the ‘ reconquest ’ of Indo-China but that it was also doubtful that France had the military strength to accomplish it , they were also invited to believe , by the French , that Ho was in direct contact with Moscow and was receiving advice and instructions from the Soviets .
17 When recruited , black soldiers were informed by colonial officials that they would receive the same training , equipment , and pay as other British troops , they were also led to believe that there were possibilities for promotion .
18 The tragedy of clients ' huge losses is that they were sometimes led to believe they would make fortunes on the above stocks within a month or two , maybe within three or four weeks .
19 And there 's more — Number Ones galore , from falsetto king Jimmy Jones ' Good Timin' to Conway Twitty 's It 's Only Make Believe … hard-driving , hipswinging dance-hall blasters like Sandy Nelson 's Let There Be Drums and Little Eva 's The Locomotion … and the pick of songs honouring the softer side of rock … the Platters ' The Great Pretender , Sam Cooke 's You Send Me and Tab Hunter 's Young Love to name just three .
20 Twitty , who was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins , has had more than 40 Country and Western hits , including the No.1 success , It 's Only Make Believe and Mona Lisa .
21 He was thus encouraged to believe that the Cambridge Board entertained some doubt over the strength of its case for unilateral action and was therefore anxious to reach a negotiated agreement with the WEA prior to making any application for additional Chapter III providing powers .
22 ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it .
23 Then she flicked a glance to Naylor Massingham and knew at once , from his tough , belligerent stance , that he was never going to believe her .
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