Example sentences of "[pron] believes [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone believes that it is raining , or that the knave stole the tarts , there is either a state of affairs such as he believes in or there is not , and his belief , and the statement which expresses it , is true or false ; accordingly . |
| 2 | Someone believes because he needs to believe , and that is that . |
| 3 | Nobody believes that is going to happen , least of all Jack Charlton , who says taking the Irish to the finals will give him as much satisfaction as he drew from winning the competition with England in 1966 . |
| 4 | The Christian Council on Ageing ( CCoA ) is a national voluntary and inter-denominational organisation , inaugurated in 1982 , which believes that churches should give greater attention to the particular needs — and potential — of older people . |
| 5 | Tuttle , by maintaining that the Laetoli prints are closer to Homo than the Hadar foot bones , and that different species were involved , is falling very much into the Leakey camp which believes that the earliest ’ true man ’ is more likely to be found in Tanzania than in Ethiopia , and that A afarensis is no more than a sub-branch of evolution . |
| 6 | There is an important strand in English thought , which is traceable to Hobbes 's idea of civitas , and which believes that the only way to preserve society is by acknowledging a perpetual sovereign power . |
| 7 | Innovation is discouraged ; there is a school of management thinking which believes that too much bureaucracy represses creativity and initiative in moulding organisation man . |
| 8 | My right hon. Friend set out the Government 's policies some time ago in a clear document that was fully backed by the CBI , which believes that we have the right policies to improve our competitiveness and to take advantage of lower inflation and of business conditions around the world as they improve . |
| 9 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 10 | Bernard Down himself believes that the service will help independents to fight back against the direct insurance writers . |
| 11 | Winterbottom himself believes that the ideal make-up of a flanker has changed in his time . |
| 12 | Feyerabend himself believes that current scientific teaching produces an ‘ unenlightened conformism ’ . |
| 13 | Dr Glasser himself believes that this specific susceptibility of the state of mind to mood-altering substances or behaviour in the sufferer from alcoholism may be genetically determined . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister , who himself believes that the moral lead should be given by the church , would happily subscribe to these ambitions for British society . |
| 15 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 16 | Anyone who believes that Mr Chatrier 's remarks can be dismissed either as those of someone who has lost touch with reality , are also way off the mark . |
| 17 | Despite these occasional reservations , Norris writes as a disciple , who believes that other disciples , as well as Derrida 's enemies , have got him wrong . |
| 18 | Irigaray 's work is nuanced in ways oft en ignored not only by her critics but by those who appropriate it , especially those who consider her to have demonstrated that homosexuality represents the true nature of patriarchy ; who believes that , as a sexual practice between the same , homosexuality becomes indicative of patriarchy 's fundamental refusal or fear of difference . |
| 19 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 20 | It would seem to follow from this that a man who believes that the woman is consenting , even though she is not , ought to be acquitted . |
| 21 | There is a defence for a young man under 24 who has not previously been charged with a similar offence and who believes that the girl is 16 years old . |
| 22 | We met the little boy who believes that all the inhabitants of an Arab village should be exterminated . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone who believes that we are what we eat will be able to get to the root of what that really means , ’ declares Francesca . |
| 24 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 25 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 26 | The profile is so comfortable that you hardly notice it , and the heel and volute are unmistakably the work of someone who believes that ‘ just good enough ’ is just not good enough — brilliant stuff . |
| 27 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 28 | 16.2 The Lead Organization shall be notified in writing by any other Party who believes that any objective set out in the Proposal can not be met completely . |
| 29 | Penn 's role was that of a rookie cop who believes that the only way to fight violence is with violence . |
| 30 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |