Example sentences of "believe that [pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many experts , he said , believed that we should aim for a smaller , more concentrated and more efficient network . |
| 2 | He gave France stronger armed forces , insisted that she be respected on the world stage and believed that she must rely on her own resources for survival . |
| 3 | The danger is the convert being more zealous than the Pope in suddenly believing that we can abdicate on all issues of policy . |
| 4 | She really wanted him to teach the swimming , believing that they might achieve for Nails , even if only because they were frightened not to ; that was the reason she had made herself be nice to him , inviting him to come up when Miss Bedwelty came . |
| 5 | When they get drunk , have a binge , take on yet another new project or make even more plans for someone else 's recovery , they are not relapsing ; they are still suffering , still believing that they can compromise with the concept of powerlessness over mind-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 6 | Warrants , addressed to the High Court tipstaff or the county court registrar and bailiff , can be issued to arrest a bankrupt where there are reasonable grounds for believing that he may abscond with a view to avoiding or delaying payment of his debts or his appearance to a petition or to avoiding , delaying or disrupting any proceedings against him or any examination of his affairs ( s 364(1) and r 7.21 ) . |
| 7 | I came to England — Ipswich — to study for the social workers ' qualification , a CQSW in Community Work , believing that I could work with women in the ways I wanted , provided I had the necessary qualifications . |
| 8 | Whilst recognising that the worship of a small , dispirited congregation is of importance to God , it does not believe that we can acquiesce in despair or even discouragement . |
| 9 | Labour Members may jeer in a debate in the House , but do they believe that they will get through an election campaign with the inconsistencies that are revealed in this document ? |
| 10 | How dare they believe that they could stand before the flower of Bretonnian chivalry ! |
| 11 | She was puzzled only by the unmistakable largesse of the confidence proffered to her , because try as she might , she could not persuade herself that Clelia could talk like this , so wittily and intimately and inquiringly , to everyone ; she could not believe that she could talk like this to many . |
| 12 | Did he really believe that it would vote for the introduction of industrial democracy in the Bullock Report 's dubious prescription for it ? |
| 13 | He did n't really believe that it would help for steady running . |
| 14 | I find it difficult to believe that we can improve on trying to establish competitive markets within the framework of a rule of law . |
| 15 | Too many pilots seem to believe that they can cope with these failures and then are proved wrong . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's hard to believe that anyone would go to such lengths , is n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | She refused to believe that anyone could start at that age ; she 'd been sixteen when hers had started . |
| 18 | It is hard to believe that she should worry about anything as unimportant . |
| 19 | It is hard to believe that anything can survive in such a hostile environment . |
| 20 | Dad had lasted so long , it was tempting to believe that he would last for ever . |
| 21 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 22 | ‘ It is hard to believe that it could come in the Grand National , ’ Gaselee said . |
| 23 | She still found it hard to believe that someone would go to all that trouble just for her . |
| 24 | Despite the burgeoning of literature on this subject , I believe that we must start with the writings of Marx , Engels and Lenin , as these still remain fundamental to everything else which has followed . |
| 25 | I mean we have done some rough calculations on what we think the average charge for the county will be , but there are still some unknown factors relative to District Council spending for instance , and it is our believe that we can get below the three hundred and seventy eight pounds . |
| 26 | It blew open those divisions , but did not stop the present Prime Minister saying , when he spoke as Chancellor in that debate : ’ I believe that they will vote for the consistency , courage and conviction with which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has led this country so successfully for so long . ’ |
| 27 | The people in Nepal are Hindus or Buddhists and they believe that they can get to God by going and praying lots of times , chanting , putting special dye on their cheeks , on their erm foreheads and making sacrifices . |
| 28 | Moreover , Don Juan 's sympathies lay with the Allies , which contributed to making his followers in Spain believe that they could look to the Western democracies in general , and to Great Britain in particular , for support . |
| 29 | Most people incorrectly believe that you must belong to a gym which is equipped with ail the latest equipment in order to make any significant progress in weight training . |
| 30 | Erm , the local government act nineteen ninety-two permits the auditor to actually advise the council to er matters which we believe that you should consider in full , er er , County erm , Council meeting , and I 'm pleased to confirm that for this year there is nothing of that nature , that er , we would put to you , to refer to . |