Example sentences of "it believe " in BNC.

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1 The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’
2 THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success .
3 In a statement , British Airways said it believed that the finance for the deal would be raised in the near future , but that its £320m fund raising issue would go ahead regardless .
4 It believed that the USA wanted a round-the-world air route with access to all countries including the Soviet Union , China , the Middle East , and Africa , as well as the British Commonwealth and Empire .
5 Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system .
6 But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 .
7 Eretz Israel , it believed , was the home of only one national community and that was Jewish .
8 It believed politics should be kept out of aid work and that any relief of suffering was beneficial .
9 The Committee on Nursing ( 1972 ) , chaired by Professor Asa Briggs , stated that it believed nursing to be the major caring profession .
10 This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary .
11 It believed that under socialism all nationalism would be irrelevant since there would be no need to organise market forces against one another in competing nationalities .
12 The board agreed to Crocker 's demands because it believed that the bank was well managed , and because it knew that the Midland did not have the management strength to tackle retail banking in an entirely alien environment .
13 Had PW qualified the accounts , it believed , the shareholders would have withdrawn their support and BCCI would have collapsed .
14 Wimpey said it believed the figures , published yesterday , were the low point in its fortunes .
15 It believed viewers would see that the fun was being poked at the kiosk 's location — not blind folk .
16 In particular , the Luxembourg Compromise permitted a state to plead special circumstances in the Council of Ministers ; in other words it would be able to exercise a veto on matters which it believed and claimed might adversely affect its own vital national interests .
17 A far narrower range of beliefs are attributable to the dog , specifically those that hark back to what we could immediately read off from similar behaviour in the case of a human being ; thus the dog believes his master is at the door but it would be a false move in the game also to ask if it believed that its master would be late the next day .
18 Last June Kingston upon Thames set up[ what it believed to be a unique new system for running the service .
19 But part of Intel 's de-emphasis is due to the fact that it believed the i860 would gather its own momentum as Microsoft Corp brought its New Technology operating system over to the chip .
20 Nearly every member of the aesthetic Mafia ( numbering no more than five people in the room and two phone bidders ) who saw it believed that the table was the work of the important Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst ( 1826–1910 ) .
21 The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead .
22 The United States attempt to modify its own declaration in April 1984 was an implicit acknowledgment that it believed Nicaragua to have a valid declaration .
23 The panel brought to last year 's assembly a modest am amendment of the nineteen sixty three act which it believed was theologically sound pastorally sensitive and which would provide a degree of flexibility .
24 The LPU entered this process as it believed a trade union would .
25 It was a clear manifestation of the industrial and cultural ethos which the coal companies were fostering : it believed that trades unions should be concerned with industrial issues only , and not wider political goals ; it gave privilege to local autonomy rather than general solidarity ; it favoured compromise with employers ; and it eschewed strike action .
26 The Sun newspaper was offering to fund a private prosecution against a doctor whom it believed to be guilty of raping an eight year old girl .
27 If the creditor knew that the surety , whilst understanding the nature of the liability he or she was accepting , was in fact acting under the influence of the debtor , then it would not be safe for the creditor to rely upon a document executed in these circumstances , unless it believed on reasonable grounds that the surety had in fact received independent advice .
28 The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him .
29 One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait .
30 I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals .
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