Example sentences of "not believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 2 | I did not believe a newspaper should be part of the apparatus of the state ; we are not a totalitarian society . |
| 3 | No , I do not believe in the audition system . |
| 4 | In consequence , it was resolved ‘ That the General Assembly is firmly opposed to indiscriminate abortion , but does not believe it is wise to insert a clause banning abortion into the Constitution of the Republic … ’ |
| 5 | But Roderick Henderson , who runs the chef division of recruitment consultant Berkeley Scott , does not believe that contract catering is always a financially rewarding sector in which to work . |
| 6 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 7 | Could not believe he really wanted to . |
| 8 | They did not believe their blood was consecrated . ’ |
| 9 | Who do not believe the existence |
| 10 | I equally do not believe that the All England Club is going to sign a contract to create a completely new club in Basingstoke tomorrow morning . |
| 11 | If you do not believe me , then listen to how Steffi Graf and Monica Seles let the cat out of the bag in Paris . |
| 12 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 13 | I am a great fan of Monica Seles but I can not believe all the letters about these two players . |
| 14 | The known facts about Shakers are carefully set out by June Sprigg and I do not believe her work is a romantic history . |
| 15 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 16 | Helen Gardner , for many years an Oxford luminary , did not believe that the purpose of ‘ English ’ was to turn out critics , any more than it was to produce poets and novelists . |
| 17 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 18 | I do not believe there is any absolute virtue in such openness , in fact , I think that education is ideally carried on in a shared form of life where there is agreement about fundamentals and attention can be concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 19 | ‘ Slowness is beauty ’ , which struck me as very odd in 1908 ( when I certainly did not believe it ) and has stayed with me ever since — shall we say as proof that you violated British habit ; and thought of it . |
| 20 | He said there was never a day when he did not believe they would survive . |
| 21 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 22 | But they do not believe the solution lies in taking up the 15,000 tonne haddock quota available off the west of Scotland . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not believe that making people poorer will stimulate change , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Speaking the day after Neil Kinnock depicted education and training as the commanding heights of every modern economy , Mr Straw insisted : ‘ We do not believe in the best for the few , but the best for all . |
| 25 | Dr Geoffrey Wyatt , the paediatrician who was her ‘ partner in crime ’ to those who can not believe they were even remotely right , still works in Middlesbrough , though not on child abuse . |
| 26 | I do not believe that at the end of a week in which we have honed a new policy we are going to even contemplate bargaining that away in smoke-filled rooms with Paddy Ashdown , David Owen , or anyone else . ’ |
| 27 | But the Chancellor said in a series of television and radio interviews that he did not believe in ‘ trying to play silly games , political games ’ — and he would not rule out a further increase if it became necessary . |
| 28 | Harlequins ... 14 Swansea … .. 21 DO NOT believe everything that has been written about the parlous state of Anglo-Welsh matches now that the English clubs are diverted by the league . |
| 29 | Police do not believe it was the work of Colombian drug lords Photograph ( omitted ) : |
| 30 | Family members at his funeral said they do not believe official accounts . |