Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [adj] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 2 | Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery . |
| 3 | As ever , the people who will suffer from Labour 's failure are among those who are furthest removed from the political process ; who are most likely to believe that the outcome of the election has little to do with them ; and , hence , who are least likely to be taking part in the election postmortem on why Labour lost . |
| 4 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 5 | Not only that , as men of power , pillars of the community , they are most likely to believe that they can get away with it without getting caught . |
| 6 | The police , too , had drunk quite a lot of beer by now , and before long they were very willing to believe that Oliver was not the robber of the night before . |
| 7 | It 's also hard to believe that someone who would use a lap-top computer would forget where he left it . ’ |
| 8 | It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity . |
| 9 | It is similarly naive to believe that management who have relied on these external services will necessarily be able to control them when they are brought in-house |
| 10 | Though there are a few anomalous features in this framing ( and the sceptic is well aware how often unscrupulous dealers have altered or exchanged such items for the sake of a sale ) it is nevertheless easier to believe that it is original than to contrive any coherent explanation . |
| 11 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 12 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 13 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 14 | Although it is too fanciful to believe that the later Last Tango in Paris could have been influenced by John and Mary , there are nonetheless similarities between the two seemingly worlds-apart movies . |
| 15 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |
| 16 | It is almost impossible to believe that they did not have contemporary events in mind , and as Æthelred was certainly not victorious , the implication is that he was unwise . |
| 17 | In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare . |
| 18 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
| 19 | It is less easy to believe that the large scale migrations of birds are accomplished by memorized landmarks and home cues than are those of the digger wasp and salmon . |
| 20 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 21 | For John , on his endless round of visits to cuttings and embankments , tunnels and bridges , it was sometimes hard to believe that all this buzz of well-organized industry could be brought to a halt by the movement of bits of paper in the far-off City . |
| 22 | It was quite difficult to believe that there could be any animation in them . |
| 23 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 24 | It was still hard to believe that the pod was not going to be destroyed before it reached the ground . |
| 25 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |