Example sentences of "not believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not believe that making people poorer will stimulate change , ’ she said . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ . |
| 9 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 10 | I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist . |
| 11 | I do not believe that reaction occurs except through individual resistance in the first place . |
| 12 | Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’ |
| 13 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 14 | Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent . |
| 15 | She did not believe that it was going to change the world or that every minute detail was worth the drama and emotionalism that the others seemed to want to pour into it . |
| 16 | He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough . |
| 17 | Cuckney does not believe that the qualities needed to be an effective chairman of a financial institution such as 3i ( Investors in Industry ) are that different to those required to oversee a manufacturing company . |
| 18 | In this Marx was similar to many of his contemporaries , such as Spencer or Comte , but he was also very different from them , for he did not believe that the same laws apply to biological evolution as apply to human societies . |
| 19 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 20 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
| 21 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 22 | Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’ |
| 23 | Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community . ’ |
| 24 | Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later . |
| 25 | ‘ The Government does not believe that it would be right for this case to be treated as a precedent . ’ |
| 26 | He did not believe that ‘ this piece of tinkering by the Government will stop Britain becoming the dump of Europe in the 1990s . ’ |
| 27 | Albert Mokhiber , president of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee ( ADC ) , does not believe that anybody in the government wants to intern Arab-Americans . |
| 28 | Yet many names do not believe that the losses for which they are being asked to stump up were incurred just through bad luck . |
| 29 | When the cultivation process was first announced , many were the sceptics who did not believe that farmed morels would ever be able to match those from the wild . |
| 30 | Helen believed that their acquaintance would ripen into a warm friendship , equalling her affection for Jane Aldis , but did not believe that she and Edward could ever fall in love , so convinced was she of her own ‘ ordinariness ’ . |