Example sentences of "believe to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) Pick a brief passage from a poem you believe to be famous . |
| 3 | At work you are told to do tasks that are not part of your job , including operating machinery which you believe to be dangerous . |
| 4 | Until then I had always held the view that police officers do not fabricate evidence against men they know to be innocent , but rather against those whom they genuinely , if mistakenly , believe to be guilty . |
| 5 | This portion of the ocean 's surface was also inhabited by storm petrels , but of a distinct species from any I had hitherto observed , and which I believe to be new to science . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But , whatever you do , you must never forget that there are a lot of very important things which are said to come from ‘ god ’ , and which nevertheless , we all believe to be good . |
| 8 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
| 9 | We , the Opposition , do not have only those who are in public service to support what we believe to be right . |
| 10 | To be the Devil 's Advocate , to enable/provoke the class into clarifying their feelings and articulating what they believe to be right : " I do n't see why we should share the proceeds . " |
| 11 | Are you behaving like that to make people laugh or because it is what you honestly believe to be right . " |
| 12 | And we must certainly say that he never saw the issues of language and imagery which feminists today believe to be crucial : he evidently refers without second thought to God as ‘ Father ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Although the SSL continues to receive legal deposit material and some foreign periodicals on exchange via the Royal Society of Edinburgh , funding for purchases is still not at the level which the Trustees believe to be necessary for a major national scientific and business information resource . |
| 15 | Speculators are positively magnetised to situations which they believe to be contrary to the product of natural forces and as a result will not last . |
| 16 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now , as I said , my own investigation of DNA strands revealed what I believe to be specific intelligence and personality factors in Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 20 | Researchers enquire selectively into what they believe to be essential according to their conceptual bent , leaving the rest aside as incidental . |
| 21 | Prisons , particularly long-term high-security prisons , are not made easier to manage if they contain prisoners passionately proclaiming their innocence and who fellow prisoners and staff believe to be innocent . |
| 22 | Humans are also prone to excuse their habits by hi jacking what they believe to be scientific objectivity and fact , or retrospectively to justify their ambitions by some gobbledygook about making a contribution to nature . |
| 23 | Obviously your personal situation will affect the choices you make but a sound principle to follow was laid down by William Morris who wrote ‘ have nothing in your home which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ In fact , ’ fluttered Miss Harker , ‘ considering everything you have told me … which I am quite sure you believe to be true even though I am sorry to tell you it can not be … |
| 25 | At the same time , using Todorov 's distinction , it does seem possible in relation to television narrative genres or subgenres to identify classical tendencies which depend — in the last instance — on conformity to rules and conventions for their verisimilitude , and to distinguish them from naturalist tendencies whose verisimilitude makes claims to be grounded in social reality — or at least claims to represent what people believe to be true . |
| 26 | On US television , it may be the crime series subgenre which comes closest to naturalist verisimilitude , and certainly the eighties generation of Hill Street Blues and Cagney and Lacey ( 1981–8 ) seemed to resemble more closely what people believe to be true than the more apparently formulaic structures of Kojak ( 1973–7 ) , Starksy and Hutch ( 1975–80 ) and Charlie 's Angels ( 1976–81 ) or the more obviously cinematic forms of Dragnet ( 1951–8 ) . |
| 27 | Generic convention , that is , gives up its claim to refer to a world outside television , or to ‘ what people believe to be true ’ , and internalizes its play . |
| 28 | Often jealousy comes from making judgements based on assertions that we believe to be true but belie the reality of the situation . |
| 29 | It is a claim additional to this , but one which I also believe to be true , that human conventions , at least beyond a certain state of elaboration , can be understood only with the help of history , and that the social sciences accordingly have an essential historical base . |
| 30 | The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ’ |