Example sentences of "[pron] believe [that] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 Brian Meek , for the Conservatives , said : ‘ I do n't know exactly that this organisation has any right to speak for democracy in Scotland , nor do I believe that it 's an all-party organisation …
2 I mean , when you get up and , I believe that it 's , a children 's duty to look after their parents .
3 Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food .
4 Now I acknowledge that this kind of exegesis might be disturbing for some , but I believe that it is important for us as modern Christians to feel the force of this criticism which has thrown fresh light on the Scriptures as we have received them .
5 I believe that it is , she thought , I truly believe that it is my mind , for Isabel has always been so firm , so clearly in control .
6 Belief that , on the other hand , is understood t be an acceptance of fact , and observation of what is the case — as in ‘ I believe that it is raining ’ .
7 GLP is clearly a good approach for some R & D laboratory functions ; however , I believe that it is not the same as TQM .
8 For the following reasons , I believe that it is still under its original controller :
9 In this case I believe that it is by far preferable to accept the lack of consistency which we all know exists in papers marked by people , rather than suffer the strangling constraints on what and how we teach forced upon us when papers are marked by machine .
10 However , I believe that it is unavoidable if we are to have any hope of defending what is ours .
11 I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ?
12 I believe that it is important that we are able to offer our members timely and constructive assistance , and that we encourage new ways of working which facilitate greater choice and effectiveness .
13 I believe that it is closed now .
14 Finally , I believe that it is less important for feminists to establish a particular set of nonsexist conventions as ‘ standard ’ than to make people aware of the non-neutrality of language .
15 Some people say that grips should be individual but I believe that it is impossible to change the laws of nature .
16 I believe that it is as close as we can ever come to a universal truth in the history of prisons — that lack of work for prisoners is the greatest cause of indiscipline , unrest and unhappiness among the prisoners .
17 If ‘ it is raining ’ expresses the belief that it is raining , but says not that I , the speaker , have that belief , but simply that it is raining , it would appear that it differs in meaning from ‘ I believe that it is raining ’ .
18 This would be so if ‘ I believe that it is raining , were a psychological statement about myself .
19 What I am expressing is a tentative belief that it is raining , not the belief ( or awareness of the fact ) that I believe that it is raining .
20 Notwithstanding Dicey 's curt rejection of the vulgar Whig idea of the ancient constitution , I believe that it is through the influence of this tradition on Dicey that we are able to make sense of his thought .
21 I gave this approach this title following a pamphlet which reproduces a lecture given by the English Anglican bishop of high church disposition John Austin Baker to a conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women.l8 I believe that it is ( in less thought-out form ) widely followed by proponents of the ordination of women , perhaps of a less radical variety , and certainly I would think that it appeals to many men .
22 I believe that it is valuable for children to learn to use this experience , and to become able , at will , to look at language rather than through it , to think about it as well as with it .
23 Quite simply , I believe that it is necessary to seduce real jobs and real industry into West Belfast by whatever means .
24 For I believe that it is determinism that rules out moral responsibility and other things we believe in … "
25 I believe that it is important in most cases for each language to have parity ; a language studied as a subsidiary subject seldom reaches a proper university standard .
26 If this second approach is right — and despite my own biochemical enthusiasms I believe that it is — then the biochemical events that I study are likely to be very general processes of protein synthesis and membrane modification , sometimes described as ‘ housekeeping ’ .
27 I hope that there will not be more than one bid from within a company and I believe that it is unlikely to happen .
28 I believe that it is important to be open to these sorts of dilemmas , to take opportunities to talk about them with colleagues , to try to become precise in our articulations , because then it is possible to unlock the blocked energy and exploit it positively .
29 The ITC made the determination and it would be inappropriate for me to comment upon the matter , especially as I believe that it is now sub judice , because the company has applied for judicial review .
30 I believe that it is possible to have a perfectly satisfactory single market without a single currency .
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