Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [adj] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Aldrich himself claims , and I am fully prepared to believe him , that he did not see Mr Stratton on the train . |
| 2 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 3 | Peck in his satirical pamphlet on bull-running says , ‘ I am sometimes inclined to believe the Stamfordians and Spaniards are more closely related than most people imagine ’ and Frederick Hackwood in an account of the Tutbury bull-running says it might have originated ‘ in an imitation of Spanish bull-fighting , introduced by John of Gaunt to please his wife Constance , a daughter of Pedro the Cruel of Castile ’ . |
| 4 | Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I 'm really likely to believe that , are n't I ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm half inclined to believe you . ’ |
| 7 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 8 | As ever , the people who will suffer from Labour 's failure are among those who are furthest removed from the political process ; who are most likely to believe that the outcome of the election has little to do with them ; and , hence , who are least likely to be taking part in the election postmortem on why Labour lost . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that she wanted to weep , and she was shaking so badly inside that it was a wonder she could still stand up straight at all , she snorted derisively , because she was too afraid to believe his words . |
| 10 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 11 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 12 | We were told that the Tia Juana bullfights were ‘ not of the best ’ and this we were quite willing to believe . |
| 13 | Not only that , as men of power , pillars of the community , they are most likely to believe that they can get away with it without getting caught . |
| 14 | He then goes on to say that he would like the plebeians to believe him because he is an honourable man , they respect him and to remember his honourable reputation so that they are more ready to believe him . |
| 15 | The police , too , had drunk quite a lot of beer by now , and before long they were very willing to believe that Oliver was not the robber of the night before . |
| 16 | It 's also hard to believe that someone who would use a lap-top computer would forget where he left it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's really easy to believe , here , that we are n't a part of the real world , is n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | And it 's really difficult to believe in things like that ? |
| 19 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps because it 's so easy to believe the worst of you . ’ |
| 21 | I suppose she 's old enough and that , but it 's still hard to believe . |
| 22 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 23 | It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity . |
| 24 | It is similarly naive to believe that management who have relied on these external services will necessarily be able to control them when they are brought in-house |
| 25 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 26 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 27 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 28 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 29 | Although it is too fanciful to believe that the later Last Tango in Paris could have been influenced by John and Mary , there are nonetheless similarities between the two seemingly worlds-apart movies . |
| 30 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |