Example sentences of "they believe [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can do what they believe they can do but they sure as hell can not do what their manager believes they can not do . |
| 2 | ‘ When you have what is effectively a one party Government for 13 years working hand in hand with the developers they believe they can do whatever they like . |
| 3 | The insistence by scientists that the World is merely a series of chance collisions of indifferent forces of nature is to him a dangerous road , since they believe they can discover and harness those indifferent forces through determining Nature 's ‘ laws ’ . |
| 4 | The er work which has preceded at er British Aerospace in the the cockpit , to bring together all the information , displays and controls erm has been tested on er a team of eighteen pilots from , drawn from the four nations , to see whether they believe they can cope with that sort of pilot work load in in simulated operations and they 're content that this kind of cockpit is ideally suited for the task and they can cope . |
| 5 | MAGISTRATES are to be given wide powers to fine criminals according to what they believe they can afford . |
| 6 | They do this when they believe they can operate more profitably and with greater stability than could be achieved by reliance on the workings of imperfect international markets ( Buckley and Casson , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Musical clergy , on the other hand , may find it hard to accept standards of choice and performance which are lower than they believe they could achieve themselves . |
| 8 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 9 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 10 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 11 | Police hunting a man who raped a woman at Swindon college have widened their search because they believe he may have moved out of town . |
| 12 | They believe it could reduce the risk of AIDS being spread through contaminated blood . |
| 13 | Well , I think we 're talking here about hospitals in particular and not GP practice but we 're also saying that this is something which the enthusiastic and bright and very capable people we have in our health service are very keen on because they believe it will do better for their patients . |
| 14 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 15 | Can I deal with your main point , er and in 's very important , er , to understand this , er , the vast majority of the parliamentary party supports strongly what we 're doing , because they believe it will improve passenger services , it will deal with getting freight on , more freight on to rail , now they they backed it throughout the party conference backed it almost unanimously |
| 16 | They believe it will sell because , if consumers are boycotting tropical hardwoods stocked by DIY stores , there is no reason why they should condone burning them on the barbecue . |