Example sentences of "believe to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We , the country people of Tayside in Perth , living between Fortingall in the west , Foss on Tummel in the north , and Logierait in the east , do solemnly petition your Worship to exempt us from the Militia Act passed in July this year , 1797 , for it would submit us to hardship and bondage , which we believe to be no duty of ours . ’ |
| 2 | In this section , I will set out what I believe to be the basic characteristics of a flourishing , as well as an unsuccessful , approach to science . |
| 3 | RUSSIA is coming to Britain to sell space technology — including materials for hip joints , rocket sub-assemblies , superglues and remote sensing data on Earth — and cash in on what they believe to be a treasure trove of research . |
| 4 | Work would already have started on improving what we already believe to be one of the country 's most modern and safe grounds . |
| 5 | They oppose the proposed changes for political reasons , believing that they form part of the task the prime minister , Michel Rocard , has set himself to reform public sector industry — reforms that many to the left of Mr Rocard believe to be inherently unsocialist . |
| 6 | ‘ They have seen a phenomenon they believe to be smoke , and with nothing but their personal opinion to guide them , they have promptly pronounced its origins as fire . ’ |
| 7 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 8 | Mr Hurd replied : ‘ We have worked out what we believe to be the most sensible balance between our desire for good race relations and harmony in our cities … and our very strong feeling that we have a continuing … duty of responsibility to people in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 9 | There is a world of difference between ham that has been sliced from the bone or cut from a joint on a machine and the pre-packaged wet and tasteless substance that so many people believe to be ham . |
| 10 | Sometimes a car slows down and the inhabitants wave and shout what they believe to be a significant phrase . |
| 11 | ‘ In fact , ’ fluttered Miss Harker , ‘ considering everything you have told me … which I am quite sure you believe to be true even though I am sorry to tell you it can not be … |
| 12 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS working at Norwich Castle have discovered what they believe to be one of the most substantial surviving Norman bridges in the country . |
| 13 | Now , as I said , my own investigation of DNA strands revealed what I believe to be specific intelligence and personality factors in Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 14 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 15 | At the same time , using Todorov 's distinction , it does seem possible in relation to television narrative genres or subgenres to identify classical tendencies which depend — in the last instance — on conformity to rules and conventions for their verisimilitude , and to distinguish them from naturalist tendencies whose verisimilitude makes claims to be grounded in social reality — or at least claims to represent what people believe to be true . |
| 16 | On US television , it may be the crime series subgenre which comes closest to naturalist verisimilitude , and certainly the eighties generation of Hill Street Blues and Cagney and Lacey ( 1981–8 ) seemed to resemble more closely what people believe to be true than the more apparently formulaic structures of Kojak ( 1973–7 ) , Starksy and Hutch ( 1975–80 ) and Charlie 's Angels ( 1976–81 ) or the more obviously cinematic forms of Dragnet ( 1951–8 ) . |
| 17 | Generic convention , that is , gives up its claim to refer to a world outside television , or to ‘ what people believe to be true ’ , and internalizes its play . |
| 18 | Beatitude is , in my opinion , a possession of all things we believe to be good , from which nothing is absent that a good desire may want . |
| 19 | 5 Of the 29 works below , list the five you believe to be the most important qualities for a saleswoman : |
| 20 | I accept that there are differing views on this subject but , since no one is able to offer concrete proof one way or the other , I can only write of what I believe to be the case . |
| 21 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 22 | Humans are also prone to excuse their habits by hi jacking what they believe to be scientific objectivity and fact , or retrospectively to justify their ambitions by some gobbledygook about making a contribution to nature . |
| 23 | If that seems too simple , then let me put what I believe to be a far more cogent argument , By bringing ‘ God ’ into this , are we not merely shifting something off ourselves ? |
| 24 | If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it . |
| 25 | Often jealousy comes from making judgements based on assertions that we believe to be true but belie the reality of the situation . |
| 26 | It may be hard to stand by and see your grandchild subjected to what you believe to be wrong methods of mixed feeding , potty training or general discipline , but you have already had your chance to bring up children . |
| 27 | Research shows that over a third of people in pain get relief from inert tablets that they believe to be painkillers . |
| 28 | But , whatever you do , you must never forget that there are a lot of very important things which are said to come from ‘ god ’ , and which nevertheless , we all believe to be good . |
| 29 | IGNORED our plea for him to address the ‘ Southgate Semiotics Society ’ — a body ‘ concerned with discussing the most poignant examples of what we believe to be ironic , individualist/regionalist and deconstructionist English . ’ |
| 30 | Obviously your personal situation will affect the choices you make but a sound principle to follow was laid down by William Morris who wrote ‘ have nothing in your home which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ’ . |