Example sentences of "to believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 2 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 3 | ‘ The truest Plagiarism is the truest Poetry ’ , claims Thomas Chatterton , warming to Ackroyd 's theme , and perhaps overdoing it , along with Ackroyd 's Wilde , who had been able to believe that ‘ almost all the methods and conventions of art and life found their highest expression in parody ’ . |
| 4 | Not everyone who reads the book will be able to sympathise with Justin and Ursula , or to believe that they understand them . |
| 5 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 6 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 7 | Roth also explains that he was ‘ educated to believe that the independent reality of the fiction is all there is of importance and that writers should remain in the shadows ’ . |
| 8 | Too many pilots seem to believe that they can cope with these failures and then are proved wrong . |
| 9 | The only solution to the ‘ opponent block ’ is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps so that you come to believe that you can win . |
| 10 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 11 | The clear , harsh voice again : ‘ There is reason to believe that an application for bail would be allowed . ’ |
| 12 | Well clearly it is not going to yield to any such analysis , and to believe that it will is to deny the reality of subjective life and to side with the behaviourists . |
| 13 | Then I am standing in Aisha 's house with its Moroccan furniture and Moroccan smell , hardly able to believe that I 'm in London , having braved the customs official who turned my passport over and over in his hands . |
| 14 | Her utterly unquestioning faith in the Bible led her to believe that none could possibly be luckier or greater than those whom the love of God chooses , and if the love of God had chosen to choose the Jews , then their superiority over the rest of mankind could not possibly be doubted . |
| 15 | This may lead some health workers , families and older people themselves to believe that there is little to be done to improve the circumstances of people with care needs . |
| 16 | Given its success after only eighteen months , and the current plans to extend the Thameslink network , it now seems hard to believe that passengers have enjoyed the ability to cross London by regular electric BR services for such a short time . |
| 17 | Yet the former has sufficient Spanish flavour , as does the Minkus score fur Don Quixote , for audiences to believe that characters really would perform in the way they do to the kind of music provided . |
| 18 | The huge , gently tilting summit plateau is vast and it is easy to believe that locals held horse races here last century . |
| 19 | The public is being asked to believe that an ill-conceived government has it in for these companies . |
| 20 | And although the Tude has plants in its waters , I am reluctant to believe that any of them are lilies ; for Chalais has suffered from the twentieth century as Aubeterre has not , and the Tude is polluted whereas the Dronne runs clear . |
| 21 | In Pound , on the other hand … are we to believe that he , the long-time admirer of Pisanello , when he was in Syracuse never visited the unrivalled collection of ancient coins in the museum there ? |
| 22 | One thinks rather the better of Phyllis Bottome for wanting to believe that what had to happen could in fact have been averted . |
| 23 | For him , to discover a new writer of genius is as satisfying an experience , as it is for a lesser man to believe that he has written a great work of genius himself . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be a serious mistake for them to believe that they could put the whole Taurus market place at jeopardy by cutting back on their Taurus budget . ’ |
| 25 | Are we to believe that false confessions were made purely out love of the police ? |
| 26 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 27 | But the most important thing is to believe that you will survive . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I believe Tony used to believe that , in the days before he became … different . ’ |
| 29 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 30 | John and Elizabeth Newson , authors of a report into the extent of parental punishment in the UK published yesterday , say : ‘ The majority of British parents interviewed seems to believe that physical punishment is an inevitable and probably necessary aspect of ordinary child upbringing . ’ |