Example sentences of "[conj] he believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four minutes later he claimed a second near Hal Far , but did not see it crash and had no witness , although he believed that the pilot of this aircraft also baled out . |
| 2 | When the barrister made his remark he was not aware that no such document existed , although he believed that it did because of what his client had said in evidence . |
| 3 | The King , however , undeterred by this , told the Prime Minister that he believed that he was the only person who could carry the country through' . |
| 4 | On taking office Sandys did , indeed , warn the Board of Admiralty that he believed that carriers cost more than they were worth . |
| 5 | In the same interview with the two journalists , Wilson made the further point that he believed that a faction in DI5 had pursued a vendetta against himself and his close colleagues . |
| 6 | Not that he believed that the firing he had heard had been caused by the French . |
| 7 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 8 | The Minister said in Committee that he believed that if abuses were proven the Secretary of State would be able to act . |
| 9 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 10 | He was still not sure that he believed that story , but in her misery was prepared to go along with her . |
| 11 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the case for pardoning Derek Bentley was supported by his trial jury , which recommended mercy in 1952 ; by the Lord Chief Justice of the day ; by the trial judge , who said subsequently that he believed that Bentley would not hang ; a subsequent Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham ; by many members of another place ; by many right hon. and hon. Members of this House — nearly one third of whom signed a recent early-day motion ; and by millions of our fellow citizens . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State was so ignorant that he believed that the Bill applied to Scotland . |
| 13 | Argentinian President Carlos Saúl Menem , speaking in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires , stated that he believed that the agreement " eliminated for good the possibility of armed conflict " between the UK and Argentina and would grant Argentina " broad possibilities " in the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 14 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |
| 15 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 16 | The King said that he had considered abdicating over the question of whether to meet Israel face-to-face , but that he believed that attending the talks would add weight to international calls for Israel 's withdrawal from the occupied territories . |
| 17 | Troon , who had first presented the government with the findings of his investigation in September 1990 , also stated that he believed that there had been an attempt by Biwott and top-level security officials to hamper his investigations . |
| 18 | The judge indicated that he believed that police of all ranks had been involved in a cover-up of the initial investigation of the massacre and called for a public inquiry . |
| 19 | UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on a visit to Turkey on April 21-22 said that he believed that Turkey should be included in the Matutes plan ( the EC 's development programme for the Mediterranean basin ) . |
| 20 | He contended that he believed that the owner would consent , had he known . |
| 21 | Dismissed because of his " too personal " interpretations of environmental affairs , Illes told a press conference that he believed that the environment would be sacrificed as the government struggled for foreign investment and the population grappled with increasing poverty , and added that Hungary does not have a coherent environmental policy . |
| 22 | In his statement , Subba Row , who is 57 years old , stressed that he believes that five years in office is sufficient , and that negotiating the International Cricket Conference agreement on South Africa , announced in January , was quite enough to be remembered by . |
| 23 | It is astonishing that he believes that the exclusion of London Scottish and London Irish from League One will raise English rugby standards . |
| 24 | Althusser 's reason for assigning these strategies to different practices is , I think , that he believes that they achieve a single result ( as far as economic practice is concerned ) in radically different ways . |
| 25 | When someone says ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ I agree with him or not according as to whether I believe that it was the knave of hearts who stole them , not according as to whether I believe that he believes that it was the knave . |
| 26 | Is that what the Prime Minister means when he says that he believes that Conservatives want to use the national health service ? |
| 27 | The right hon. Member for Blaby may not like the idea of a European central bank , but he is clearly on record as saying that he believes that in this country 's economy an independent central bank would be a guarantee against inflation . |
| 28 | The European Commissioner for the environment has said that he believes that there has been a failure to carry out a proper environmental impact assessment . |
| 29 | The problem with the Minister 's logic is that his colleague , the other Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Wantage ( Mr. Jackson ) has recently gone on record saying that he believes that women should have pay parity with men in accordance with the law . |
| 30 | I look forward to the day when we do have a regional tier of government , and erm , a very prominent local politician , not of my party , told me in confidence , that he believes that erm , there will be a regional tier of government sooner or later , if only to react to the pressures from Europe . |