Example sentences of "believe that [pron] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of his crew believed that they were sailing into nothingness or that they might sail off the edge of the world . |
| 2 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 3 | There was a time when we naively believed that it was caused by Immune Overload — too many stimulants and not enough rest and nutrition . |
| 4 | For the moment we move forward believing that we are going in a direction to which we have already been prompted , and in the confidence that the holy spirit is working among us . |
| 5 | And if I had known this my justification for believing that they are playing at home would be defeated , because I also believe that they normally accept such invitations . |
| 6 | To the question whether a man , who has intercourse with a woman believing that she is consenting to it , though she is not , commits rape , I think that he [ the ordinary man ] would reply , ‘ No . |
| 7 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 8 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 9 | The doctors were diverted into believing that it was related to my stomach . |
| 10 | Specific point of the South Wales police authority 's difficulties , would he not say that at least they 're partly due to the police authority believing that it was going to be er underspending in the current year and being out in its calculations by about two million pounds , would n't you think that that was at least a factor ? |
| 11 | That part of the Prime Minister 's speech will be studied carefully because it reveals his intentions , although I do not believe that they are shared by the Minister . |
| 12 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 13 | He still could n't entirely believe it , In the sense that he could not believe that it was happening to him , that he was so vulnerable to such a common , almost hackneyed feeling . |
| 14 | It does n't help when , as a child , your brother leads you to believe that they 're used as rubber pants for hamsters . |
| 15 | This sort of twisted ply , of which there are many examples , finds a close analogy in some of the well known ( cholesterolic ) liquid crystals and has led some scientists , notably Dr Charles Neville of the University of Bristol , to believe that they are formed by a process of direct self-assembly . |
| 16 | In this light , there is no logical reason for lawyers and accountants to believe that they are pitted against each other . |
| 17 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 18 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 19 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |
| 20 | Cobb argues that social support arises in the eye of the beholder , and is anything that influences the person to perceive himself as the recipient of positive affect ; any information ‘ leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved … esteemed and valued … ’ |
| 21 | The delegate arriving to an indifferent reception or lack of clear information , even a misspelt name , soon starts to believe that he 's dealing with incompetents . |
| 22 | Evans ' team mates are sure to believe that he was tempted into French RU by the pay , reputedly twice that earned by League players there . |
| 23 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 24 | It 's difficult to believe that he was expelled from nursery school at the age of three for being a ‘ smart alec ’ . |
| 25 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 26 | Standing on the beautifully tended grass of Jesus Green and watching a throng of tourists , language students and local people enjoying the tranquillity of the lock , it is hard to believe that it was built for commerce rather than leisure . |
| 27 | If they believe ( as they often do ) that human needs and interests are more important than the needs and interests of nonhuman animals , then they can — and , in fact , they often do — believe that we are justified in causing significant pain to animals , even if they belong to endangered species . |
| 28 | For the reasons that I gave in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath ( Mr. Townsend ) , I believe that we are looking after the interests and future of the wood as thoroughly as any reasonable person could . |
| 29 | Experts believe that they were made in Mortlake between 1630 and 1660 , but it is by no means clear how and when they reached Bratislava . |
| 30 | We still believe that there 's going to be a kingdom over in Israel and that David Koresh is going to come back and be the head of that kingdom and that it 's going to be a peaceful place as prophecized in the Bible . |