Example sentences of "we believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believed the rumour on Tuesday that British Aerospace was building up a big shareholding but we are not so sure now , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 2 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 3 | We believed in Hollywood . |
| 4 | But we would be equally wrong if we believed that the development of rhythms depended wholly upon internal factors . |
| 5 | ‘ We believed it then and we still do today . |
| 6 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 7 | We were taught that , and we believed that then — — and we still do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We believed very much in the significance of what we were doing , ’ said Secord , leaving for a moment the sticky operational details . |
| 9 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 10 | We believed in the idea of national catastrophe , of national renewal , of political renaissance . |
| 11 | As in previous cases , we believed he was failing to carry out his statutory duties . |
| 12 | A small group of professionals , myself included , selected those books which we believed should be saved at all costs but , although we did this as conscientiously as possible , our combined subject knowledge was at best partial and it is inevitable that some books worthy of preservation were overlooked … |
| 13 | If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame . |
| 14 | We believed that flowers were for the living , and Uncle used to often quote some lines of poetry : |
| 15 | We believed that the best practice reflects a consensus rather than such extreme positions , and we did not see this as some timid compromise . |
| 16 | The money will be there when you turn 21 ’ , and we believed them . ’ |
| 17 | We believed that what we were doing did n't infringe on the characters of any group of people , and therefore we had a clear mind . |
| 18 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 19 | We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way . |
| 20 | ‘ We believed in the wisdom of being there at the beginning when customers most need financial advice , and we still do , ’ says Mr Foulds . |
| 21 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 22 | Months ago , when I first entertained questions about the prospective Esquire , everybody wanted to know why we believed a sufficient number of men in Britain were likely to buy such a magazine . |
| 23 | We believed that people at the conference would want to examine the validity of those claims and that official government representation would therefore be valuable . |
| 24 | We believed this conference would benefit from the IFI 's explanation of the criteria by which those projects were chosen and those amounts allocated . |
| 25 | We believed we were poor because we children were expensive items , and all the arrangements had been made for us . |
| 26 | I think it did have a lot to do with the status that being different conferred , for in spite of the austerity of our childhood , we believed that we were better than other people , the food we ate being a mark of this , because our mother told us so — so successfully that even now I have to work hard at actually seeing the deprivations . |
| 27 | " But anyway we believed in buying land and that the municipality ought to have a share , that the community ought to have a share in the equity of real estate . " |
| 28 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 29 | But we believed a lot in those days ; protected by our innocence and by our conviction in our one God , under whose banner we could righteously pillage the world . |
| 30 | Trepper was interrogated by the Gestapo and we believed he became a double agent , a lot of misinformation was received in Moscow . ’ |