Example sentences of "[pron] do [not/n't] believe that " in BNC.

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1 No I 'd I 'd I do n't I do n't believe that that 's the case erm
2 I do not believe that making people poorer will stimulate change , ’ she said .
3 I do not believe that at the end of a week in which we have honed a new policy we are going to even contemplate bargaining that away in smoke-filled rooms with Paddy Ashdown , David Owen , or anyone else . ’
4 I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist .
5 I do not believe that reaction occurs except through individual resistance in the first place .
6 Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’
7 Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value .
8 Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’
9 Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’
10 I do not believe that youth is incapable of true and lasting love …
11 In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it .
12 Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on .
13 I do not believe that things like that normally happen in a lifetime . ’
14 I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss .
15 I do not believe that they would be put off by a hostile bid not being ‘ good-form ’ . ’
16 But I do not believe that we can assemble a majority for anything as negative as ‘ get the Tories out ’ .
17 Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’
18 Mr Tony Walker , Port of London Authority liaison officer , said : ‘ I do not believe that any of the reputable large cruise lines are involved in this fraud , but I can envisage trouble with some of the smaller , five-day Mediterranean cruise operators who might not have enough decent vessels . ’
19 Lord Lyons , the British Ambassador in Paris , told the Foreign Office on two separate occasions that ‘ I do not believe that either the Emperor or his Ministers either wish for war or expect it . ’
20 I do not believe that the answer lies in amalgamations , technology , and further reduction of manpower .
21 I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police .
22 Nevertheless I do not believe that philosophy is an appropriate subject for study by pupils at school .
23 I do not believe that this perceptual process is either universal or immutable , but it is ubiquitous and extremely potent .
24 I do not believe that either of these theories is plausible as a reading of postwar history or workable as a means of governing Britain … .
25 I do not believe that we could in any event disclose the existence of the GEN groups .
26 Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees .
27 I do not believe that the pursuit of happiness is a possibility : happiness is not something that can be chased and captured .
28 If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries .
29 But I do not believe that H. Ward Marston 's transfers are surpassable , and am grateful that the surface noise of the original discs remains intact rather than being artificially eliminated .
30 It requires a depth of human understanding , an ability to communicate on a one-to-one basis with different characters , and I do not believe that Frank can do this very well .
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