Example sentences of "we believe to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 2 | Erm it was to hopefully apprehend a person called that we believed to be er staying at that flat . |
| 3 | ‘ We , the country people of Tayside in Perth , living between Fortingall in the west , Foss on Tummel in the north , and Logierait in the east , do solemnly petition your Worship to exempt us from the Militia Act passed in July this year , 1797 , for it would submit us to hardship and bondage , which we believe to be no duty of ours . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Hurd replied : ‘ We have worked out what we believe to be the most sensible balance between our desire for good race relations and harmony in our cities … and our very strong feeling that we have a continuing … duty of responsibility to people in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 5 | Beatitude is , in my opinion , a possession of all things we believe to be good , from which nothing is absent that a good desire may want . |
| 6 | Often jealousy comes from making judgements based on assertions that we believe to be true but belie the reality of the situation . |
| 7 | IGNORED our plea for him to address the ‘ Southgate Semiotics Society ’ — a body ‘ concerned with discussing the most poignant examples of what we believe to be ironic , individualist/regionalist and deconstructionist English . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The picture shows a man who we believe to be the double burglar cuddling his girlfriend , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 9 | We therefore feel that a Pensions Act is now necessary in order to consolidate existing legislation , clarify the major areas of uncertainty which currently exist in trust law , and to introduce new safeguards which we believe to be necessary . ’ |
| 10 | Counselling empathy requires constant testing because we can never be certain that what we believe to be the feelings and attitudes of the counsellees are accurate . |
| 11 | If , as we believe to be the case , the unconscious activity of the mind consists in imposing forms upon content , and if these forms are fundamentally the same for all minds — ancient and modern , primitive and civilized |
| 12 | This fact we believe to be fundamental to our understanding of how he will learn ; he will learn language through an interaction between the efforts of his own brain and events in the outside world . |
| 13 | An inappropriate model of visual perception will lead us to ask the wrong questions about the parts of the brain we believe to be involved in it . |
| 14 | The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ’ |
| 15 | So my beliefs constitute an extremely important constraint on my behaviour and , bearing in mind that what we believe to be right or wrong is , to a large extent , learnt behaviour , that we do not inherit such beliefs , it is obvious that the source of these beliefs has to be seen as a major constraint on , and determinant of , our behaviour . |
| 16 | All that we have described so far we believe to be common to visionary leadership in general . |
| 17 | This is an assumption that we believe to be fatally flawed , for the reasons we have outlined earlier . |
| 18 | If , as we believe to be the case , powers are being so exercised , then the issue of constitutional legitimacy which arises is quite simple : what is the value or use of a constitution based on and designed to ensure the maintenance of a system of limited government if it can , quite lawfully and even constitutionally , be set on one side ? |
| 19 | However , given the importance of the mortality record of the children of what we believe to be economically inactive , one parent families , any analysis of health inequalities will be seriously flawed if it fails to include this group . |
| 20 | Chris Bonington said ‘ This year we are hoping to attract teams from all over the country to an event that we believe to be a great way of linking people here with the millions still suffering from probably the world 's most disabling disease . ’ |
| 21 | We , the Opposition , do not have only those who are in public service to support what we believe to be right . |
| 22 | Finding what we believe to be normal colon motility in children without constipation and abnormal upper gastrointestinal motility suggests that in some children CIP does not involve the colon . |