Example sentences of "not believe " in BNC.
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| 31 | As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ . |
| 32 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 33 | Even now , a year before the deciding vote , he does not believe that sport here understands what getting the Games would mean . |
| 34 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 35 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 36 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 37 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 38 | Some may be misinformed because they misread their newspaper , or because their paper prints inaccurate information , or even because they do not believe what is printed in their paper . |
| 39 | Frank said that he did not believe in God ; such a belief can not possibly be proved ; the good life is possible without it ; and the only faculty to judge is the reason , which tells us to say , we do not know . |
| 40 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 41 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 42 | I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist . |
| 43 | I do not believe that reaction occurs except through individual resistance in the first place . |
| 44 | Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past . |
| 45 | Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’ |
| 46 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 47 | Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent . |
| 48 | She did not believe that it was going to change the world or that every minute detail was worth the drama and emotionalism that the others seemed to want to pour into it . |
| 49 | Phoebe , like her mother , did not believe a word of it , but part of her knew it was true . |
| 50 | She wanted to say , ‘ Because of Maggie and Rachel and Lisa and the garden and duty and sunshine , ’ but alone in the darkness she did not believe in any of that . |
| 51 | ‘ I do not believe you . ’ |
| 52 | He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough . |
| 53 | Cuckney does not believe that the qualities needed to be an effective chairman of a financial institution such as 3i ( Investors in Industry ) are that different to those required to oversee a manufacturing company . |
| 54 | Cuckney does not believe the crash was the result of any fundamental change in the structure of national economies , but he does suggest that it signals the fact that greater volatility in global markets is here to stay . |
| 55 | In this Marx was similar to many of his contemporaries , such as Spencer or Comte , but he was also very different from them , for he did not believe that the same laws apply to biological evolution as apply to human societies . |
| 56 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 57 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 58 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
| 59 | Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season . |
| 60 | Herr Nordern could not believe his ears . |