Example sentences of "[prep] believing [conj] the [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) . |
| 2 | If the Bull God was Poteidan , and the sacral horns are bull horns , there is a prima facie case for believing that the shrine was dedicated to Poteidan . |
| 3 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 4 | Having lived through the case in considerable detail since the writ was delivered in 1989 , nearly seven years after the audit report in question was signed off , I think I can say that there are some better grounds for believing that the result is good for the profession than are implied in your brief summary . |
| 5 | There are several reasons for believing that the answer is a resounding Yes . |
| 6 | One might have been forgiven for believing that the answer was to be determined by the label adopted by Parliament in creating the body in question . |
| 7 | He was struck silent for quite some seconds , as if ignorance of Faye Russell 's work was on a par with believing that the earth was flat . |
| 8 | But that the the leader of the house effectively made a statement in Prime Minister 's questions on the same issue , misleading the house into believing that the government were actually applying this money to patient care rather than to meeting their own political incompetence . |
| 9 | Most common , perhaps , are those cases where the person to whose rights the agent consented was misled , through the agent 's fault , into believing that the consent was valid and acted reasonably on this belief to his detriment . |