Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] believe [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 2 | Suppose we honestly believe that some treatment is unlikely to bring us a benefit that makes worthwhile the pain or distress involved , we have every right to refuse it . |
| 3 | If you want to have more fun , for example , do you also believe that work justifies your existence , or that fun-loving people waste time , or that it 's ‘ better ’ to be serious and heavy-hearted ? |
| 4 | If you want good health , do you also believe that health is a matter of luck , or that you are a sickly person , or that the body is a machine ? |
| 5 | Do you truly believe that this country has really benefited from the importation of blacks , Asians etc ? |
| 6 | ‘ Do you really believe that the Palestinians want to come back ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | Do you really believe that the performance appraisal system ( currently so fashionable ) is helping achieve profit ? |
| 8 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 9 | Do you genuinely believe that your company 's products and services are the best in the marketplace ? |
| 10 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 11 | Do you seriously believe that I would jeopardise my career by dabbling in such nasty , underhand acts ? ’ |
| 12 | Do we really believe that the rights we enjoy under our laws compare favourably with those in other societies ? |
| 13 | Do we really believe that such an instinct is to be found encoded only into molecular and electromagnetic patterns within the brain ? |
| 14 | Do we still believe that the sun goes round the earth ? |
| 15 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 16 | Frank Dick is one of the most academically knowledgeable coaches in the world , and aside from the personal differences between us , I think he genuinely believed that I was more useful in one of the central legs of the race . |