Example sentences of "belief [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | They simply share the belief that it is not going to be possible to explain behaviour adequately if mental processes are identified with the contents of conscious awareness . |
| 2 | I am going to attempt such a classification not with the belief that it is either scientific — this University has a Department of Criminology , and I am sure that my attempts would be regarded as very crude in those august circles — nor with the idea that the classification will be exhaustive , but by way of illustration of my essential point that different criminal phenomena , or anti-law-and-order phenomena , require different types of reaction on the part of the rest of society and imply different prognoses . |
| 3 | The authors of Blueprint for a Green Economy express the belief that it is possible to put a money value on the benefit of preserving the rare Californian condor , so why not on chalk-hill blue butterflies ? |
| 4 | In the belief that it is better to abuse himself than others , he gets his kicks from watching his own videotaped interviews with women about their sexual preferences . |
| 5 | It imposes on us the belief that it is wrong to steal or to commit murder — and that has to be a good thing . |
| 6 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 7 | The judges ' decision to prevent Touvier from coming to trial reflects the long-held belief that it is unwise for France to dwell on this part of her history . |
| 8 | There is a very pervasive belief that it is research in theoretical and applied linguistics which provides the solutions . |
| 9 | Chairmen rely on the old boy network in the belief that it is hard to find appropriately qualified NEDs , adds PRONED managing director Colin St Johnston . |
| 10 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 11 | Such elders may be stoically enduring remediable suffering , have internalised an ageist view that old folks should not have many desires ‘ at their time of life ’ , or hold a belief that it is wrong to want things , or to be assertive . |
| 12 | It is my firm belief that it is an ideal place to do all three . ’ |
| 13 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 14 | To say that the cat perceives the ball is stuck requires that it has the belief that it is , and this involves its possessing the concepts ‘ ball ’ and ‘ stuck ’ . |
| 15 | Because so many people now retire early , there is a widespread belief that it is possible to get an early pension . |
| 16 | ‘ It is raining ’ is typically caused by and causes the belief that it is raining , and therefore has primarily descriptive meaning . |
| 17 | Thus the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that it is raining and the statement ‘ Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories . |
| 18 | In virtue of expressing the belief that it is raining the statement ‘ It is raining says or asserts that it is raining . |
| 19 | If one 's companion says ( a little artificially ) ‘ Quite so ’ ( perhaps ‘ Quite so , what of it ? ’ ) she is expressing her belief that it is raining . |
| 20 | If ‘ it is raining ’ expresses the belief that it is raining , but says not that I , the speaker , have that belief , but simply that it is raining , it would appear that it differs in meaning from ‘ I believe that it is raining ’ . |
| 21 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 22 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 23 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 24 | What I am expressing is a tentative belief that it is raining , not the belief ( or awareness of the fact ) that I believe that it is raining . |
| 25 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 26 | What is forceful in Spinoza 's approach is his belief that it is mere empty verbiage to recommend conduct to people unless this engages with their real motivations . |
| 27 | German romantic philosophers before Hegel were infatuated by ‘ expressivism ’ , the belief that it is possible to create a world in which human spiritual capacities can be fully expressed ( Taylor , 1975 ) . |
| 28 | But the report concluded that undue emphasis is placed on inquiries about research experience in the mistaken belief that it is easier to assess a candidate 's research abilities . |
| 29 | There follows a detailed analysis of the important moves , indeed , the important holds , before Gordon reiterates his belief that it is surely one of the finest routes known to man . |
| 30 | Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |