Example sentences of "[that] it is rain " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It is raining ’ is typically caused by and causes the belief that it is raining , and therefore has primarily descriptive meaning . |
| 3 | Thus the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that it is raining and the statement ‘ Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories . |
| 4 | In virtue of expressing the belief that it is raining the statement ‘ It is raining says or asserts that it is raining . |
| 5 | In virtue of expressing the belief that it is raining the statement ‘ It is raining says or asserts that it is raining . |
| 6 | One could also say more impersonally that the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the belief , not merely the speaker 's belief , that it is raining . |
| 7 | That makes it clearer that someone else who assents to ( or dissents from ) the statement is expressing their belief ( or disbelief ) that it is raining . |
| 8 | If one 's companion says ( a little artificially ) ‘ Quite so ’ ( perhaps ‘ Quite so , what of it ? ’ ) she is expressing her belief that it is raining . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 13 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 14 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 15 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 16 | This would be so if ‘ I believe that it is raining , were a psychological statement about myself . |
| 17 | Thus if I say ‘ I believe it is raining ’ I am usually saying , rather tentatively , that it is raining . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | If someone believes that it is raining , or that the knave stole the tarts , there is either a state of affairs such as he believes in or there is not , and his belief , and the statement which expresses it , is true or false ; accordingly . |