Example sentences of "it believe that " in BNC.

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1 The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’
2 In a statement , British Airways said it believed that the finance for the deal would be raised in the near future , but that its £320m fund raising issue would go ahead regardless .
3 It believed that the USA wanted a round-the-world air route with access to all countries including the Soviet Union , China , the Middle East , and Africa , as well as the British Commonwealth and Empire .
4 This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary .
5 It believed that under socialism all nationalism would be irrelevant since there would be no need to organise market forces against one another in competing nationalities .
6 The board agreed to Crocker 's demands because it believed that the bank was well managed , and because it knew that the Midland did not have the management strength to tackle retail banking in an entirely alien environment .
7 A far narrower range of beliefs are attributable to the dog , specifically those that hark back to what we could immediately read off from similar behaviour in the case of a human being ; thus the dog believes his master is at the door but it would be a false move in the game also to ask if it believed that its master would be late the next day .
8 Nearly every member of the aesthetic Mafia ( numbering no more than five people in the room and two phone bidders ) who saw it believed that the table was the work of the important Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst ( 1826–1910 ) .
9 It was a clear manifestation of the industrial and cultural ethos which the coal companies were fostering : it believed that trades unions should be concerned with industrial issues only , and not wider political goals ; it gave privilege to local autonomy rather than general solidarity ; it favoured compromise with employers ; and it eschewed strike action .
10 The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him .
11 I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals .
12 However , speculation remained that the Army distrusted the peace process , and that it believed that the URNG 's motives were designed to buy time and international prestige while it regrouped its forces .
13 It believed that by accepting the South African government view that it had no jurisdiction there , the USA was giving implicit recognition to the nominally independent homeland of Bophuthatswana .
14 It believed that the revelations about the SADF were " inextricably linked " to the financing of Inkatha .
15 Yet paradoxically in 1956 it was the British government which chose to embark upon a high-risk and impulsive policy once it believed that fundamental national interests were at stake .
16 In this context , Greenpeace said it believed that some of the sprays were dangerous , and pointed out that they were banned in several countries .
17 A threat expressed in the form ‘ if I catch you when there are no police about ’ addressed to an adversary is not caught by the section , since it is not a threat of such as to cause the victim of it to believe that he will be the object of ‘ immediate ’ violence .
18 Not only is it believed that God , through creation and revelation , has made known His will for humankind , a will revealed to us supremely through the words and actions of Jesus Christ , but He has continued to guide His church .
19 In no other human discipline , not in philosophy , nor science , nor music , is it believed that there has been a particular revelation of God in history , so that that point in history is then necessarily taken up into the discipline .
20 It believes that unless urgent action is taken , on this front , law enforcement agencies will be deprived of a potentially powerful weapon against international crime .
21 Japan , which has no fossil fuel reserves of its own , wants to stockpile plutonium because it believes that it can develop the technology to transform it into plentiful and cheap electricity .
22 It believes that the government wants a short-term profitable fishery regardless of the consequences for the crab fishery or the dolphins .
23 It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas .
24 It believes that the Country needs a return of the sane principles of ‘ peace , retrenchment , and reform ’ , which formed the basis of Liberal policy a generation ago .
25 It believes that this ‘ crisis ’ level of interest rates may only may last only a short while but that a ‘ risk premium ’ may remain throughout the life of a Labour government , with adverse implications for growth .
26 It believes that ‘ fooling all of the people all of the time ’ is entirely possible when the product or service is interesting or persuasive enough .
27 It believes that companies need to integrate environmental management with existing managemental structures and practices .
28 Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ .
29 It believes that every vehicle should have a sophisticated exhaust that traps the lead and prevents it from reaching the atmosphere .
30 In other areas , notably in relation to the right of freedom of association and collective bargaining , the Commission is abstaining from any action , because it believes that these measures are best dealt with by social partners of industry , or , as appropriate , by the Member States .
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