Example sentences of "we do not believe [that] " in BNC.

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1 We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society .
2 We did not believe that we were getting the best range of stock into Dillons , ’ says Adrian Bourne , group managing director for sales .
3 We did not believe that the issue should have come within that particular article .
4 We do not believe that it is necessary to placate God in such a way .
5 If the UK has its way , then the Directive should have little impact , for it notes , ‘ We do not believe that it will be necessary to apply measures in the UK to protect waters from eutrophication due to nitrate . ’
6 All of the writing attainment targets should be assessed in the context of those pieces of work ; we do not believe that spelling or handwriting should be assessed through decontextualised tests or exercises .
7 We do not believe that , by the time Sizewell is built , we will be short of information , ’ he added .
8 But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent .
9 We do not believe that anyone actually consciously thinks this way , but when we have helped people work through their emotions , in retrospect , that is what it actually boils down to .
10 We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations .
11 We are never presented as sexual subjects or objects , so we are less likely to trigger desire , and if we do not believe that we are desirable we will project this and create further obstacles .
12 ‘ As of today , we do not believe that the declaration of a state of emergency would increase that flow of supplies , food , or materials .
13 We do not believe that the connection between cause and effect is logical or conceptual , despite the fact that an event or thing may be defined in terms of its effect .
14 We do not believe that whatever the situation had been , if the switch was flipped , the wipers would have started .
15 Clearly we do not believe that since cc occurred , e would still have as it did , even if k had been missing .
16 We do not believe that the orthodox account provides a satisfactory explanation of the crisis , for reasons we shall be giving shortly .
17 As we shall be explaining in the following chapters , we do not believe that the steps taken in the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 will prove drastic enough .
18 We do not believe that people are like that .
19 We do not believe that this kind of analysis can be politically or morally neutral — and nor should it , for our understanding of the situation is that the penal system is morally indefensible and is in dire need of a programme of radical reform which will inevitably be highly political .
20 Finally , we are at pains to stress that , despite all the arrows in Figure 1.2 , we do not believe that human actions and beliefs are mechanistically determined .
21 We do not believe that there is an inherent power in this court to make such an order .
22 We do not believe that fruit flies have a chance of 61/84 of red eyes because on its own this is a silly idea ; but also , it does not fit with the rest of our accumulated knowledge .
23 But we do not believe that the pursuit of national efficiency can be ranked much lower — not least because without it the human rights themselves will not be secure .
24 We do not believe that there is any good evidence that the therapeutic plasma concentration range is different in chronic obstructive airways disease than in asthma .
25 We do not believe that general practitioners will be overburdened .
26 But we do not believe that major organisational changes in the commercial sector are explained in these terms .
27 We do not believe that that is correct .
28 We do not believe that the proposal would add significantly to costs .
29 We do not believe that its two main provisions have a necessary part in this year 's legislative programme unless they are intended to enable the privatisation of British Coal next year if the Tories are still in power .
30 I shall answer his question directly : we do not believe that the information should be denied to parents , but we believe that crude performance tables should not be used to distort the choices that parents make between different schools in Scotland , as would be the case if the Bill were implemented .
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