Example sentences of "in believing [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Walter Raleigh [ q.v. ] was not alone in believing that they were , in his words , ‘ pensioners to Customer Smith ’ . |
| 2 | Bakunin was perhaps not entirely wrong in supposing that in such a time the spirit of at least potential insurrection was most likely to smoulder among the marginal and sub-proletariat , though he was quite mistaken in believing that they would be the base of revolutionary movements . |
| 3 | It is the child who refuses to abandon Dreams — who stubbornly persists in believing that he or she will explore the depths of the Amazon , or will become a film director — who becomes the adult who will achieve those ambitions . |
| 4 | The same survey found that the more a person smokes the less faith that person has in believing that he or she can stop . |
| 5 | Perhaps , however , we can make this claim by appeal to the initial moves of the argument that you are not justified in believing that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 6 | go into a wedding , you go in believing that it is forever that 's it ! |
| 7 | I am at one with the hon. Gentleman in believing that it is important that we develop such a policy — but neither he nor I , nor anyone else , can say that any particular state of agriculture is frozen . |