Example sentences of "[adv] believe that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I equally do not believe that the All England Club is going to sign a contract to create a completely new club in Basingstoke tomorrow morning . |
| 2 | Helen Gardner , for many years an Oxford luminary , did not believe that the purpose of ‘ English ’ was to turn out critics , any more than it was to produce poets and novelists . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’ |
| 6 | Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’ |
| 7 | Yet many names do not believe that the losses for which they are being asked to stump up were incurred just through bad luck . |
| 8 | Romero disapproved of this theology ; he did not believe that the way of Christ called anybody to overthrow governments . |
| 9 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 10 | The Government President of Swabia formulated what was undoubtedly widely felt in September 1941 , when he wrote that ‘ from here , the proceedings in the homeland must appear ‘ Bolshevistic ’ , the blatant contradiction incomprehensible ; people can not believe that the Führer approves of this . ’ |
| 11 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 12 | I do not believe that the answer lies in amalgamations , technology , and further reduction of manpower . |
| 13 | I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police . |
| 14 | Most experts do not believe that the USSR can increase oil production much above the present level due to cumbersome bureaucracy , failure to find new reserves and shortage of sophisticated drilling equipment . |
| 15 | But overall , NACAB did not believe that the initial resources proposed for the task were sufficient and considerable negotiations would be necessary before the CAB would accept the task . |
| 16 | I do not believe that the pursuit of happiness is a possibility : happiness is not something that can be chased and captured . |
| 17 | And this is a useful contribution I can not believe that the book jacket blurb was seen by Barry Gale ; it informs us that ‘ In 1859 , when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species , he had no more evidence in support of his theory than did the creationists … ’ which is a caricature of Gale 's quite unexceptionable thesis . |
| 18 | Could it be their governments do not believe that the Iraqi regime will eventually be forced to make good the costs of the operation ? |
| 19 | Surely cheating is cheating , whatever form it takes , and I do not believe that the ‘ crimes ’ committed at the Olympics were any worse than that committed in Rome . |
| 20 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 21 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |
| 22 | Shoppers can not believe that the process is so straightforward . |
| 23 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 24 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 25 | I do not believe that the gospel story — of redemption and reconciliation — can be adequately told without the clamour of spiritual warfare or without the primary role of the Evil One . |
| 26 | Yet he could not believe that the KGB could have discovered his one small secret . |
| 27 | If I did not believe that the answer to these questions was in each case a resounding yes I would have found it very difficult to give these lectures . |
| 28 | Sinister though their role was , Hobson did not believe that the financiers were out to provoke war between the European powers . |
| 29 | The evidence for overseas exchange , particularly in one direction , is the easiest to observe in the archaeological record , although we should not believe that the details are yet fully understood . |
| 30 | A top firm of criminal lawyers told us they did not believe that the chances of a successful prosecution fell below 50 per cent — the CPS 's normal test . |