Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [adv] believe that " in BNC.

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1 An officer of the rank of superintendent or above may delay access where the detainee is suspected of a serious arrestable offence and where the officer reasonably believes that one of the following will result from allowing such access :
2 It was held by Lords Hailsham , Cross and Fraser , with Lords Simon and Edmund-Davies dissenting , that there can be no conviction for rape where a man honestly believes that a woman consents to sexual intercourse and that his belief did not have to be reasonable .
3 It must be taken that the Commissioners honestly believed that the defendant was personally liable , and really intended to take legal proceedings against him , as they had done against Goble .
4 This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace .
5 Again , the provisions broadly only apply to acts in the UK and it is a defence to show that a person reasonably believed that his act or conduct would not create and impression that was false or misleading .
6 However , a written consent is not needed in the case of a customer outside the UK if the firm reasonably believes that he does not wish to give written consent ; the firm must keep a record of its reasons .
7 The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records .
8 By the time they had reached Morocco , the Shah and the Queen both believed that Giscard had betrayed them personally at Guadeloupe .
9 1 The search — the police hunt for an attacker will occur only under certain circumstances , when the police really believe that a crime was committed and , usually , that he is unknown to the victim .
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