Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | And , ’ her blush deepened , ‘ you 're obviously determined to believe the worst of me where both Giles and Clive are concerned . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We were always led to believe there were no survivors when the Lorelei blew up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The English are sometimes accustomed to think , indeed , they are often taught to believe , that their Parliament began with Simon de Montfort . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |