Example sentences of "believe [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the form of labelling was concerned they believed that what was required was a simple declaration such as contains copies of X genes , in single ingredient foods and foods sold loose , they believe a declaration should form part of or accompanying the name under which food is offered for sale . |
| 2 | In spite of all evidence to the contrary , he always believed that we were leaving bokra , tomorrow . |
| 3 | Many of his crew believed that they were sailing into nothingness or that they might sail off the edge of the world . |
| 4 | Nonetheless he believed that they were seeing genuine effects that were inexplicable unless fusion were taking place . |
| 5 | Fleischmann and Pons by now believed that they were seeing neutrons , though they were puzzled by the numbers . |
| 6 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they were seeing ten thousand neutrons per cm 3 per second and on 1 March Fleischmann phoned Ron Bullough , the Harwell Chief Scientist , to tell him the news . |
| 7 | Others , several of them very distinguished , recognized that great care was necessary but believed that they were seeing something so important that it ought to be properly investigated . |
| 8 | So Peter Abelard could argue that those who crucified Christ had not sinned because they genuinely believed that they were acting rightly . |
| 9 | By controlling me they believed that they were avoiding my criticism of them as parents . |
| 10 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , however strong the churches remained , there were many sympathetic who believed that they were crumbling , and felt sad , nostalgic or alarmed about it . |
| 12 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 13 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 14 | At times she believed that he was seeking Camilla 's advice about his marriage or making arrangements to see her . |
| 15 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 16 | In 1958 he believed that he was founding a republic that would serve France well for many years to come , but he also believed that in the immediate future his presence was essential to France 's safety and renewal . |
| 17 | She honestly believed that she was making life easier for Jack , by providing him with a background of home , where not only were meals provided and clothes mended , but his time was also jealously guarded . |
| 18 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 19 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 20 | There was a time when we naively believed that it was caused by Immune Overload — too many stimulants and not enough rest and nutrition . |
| 21 | Having relied on the administration to perpetrate abuses on their behalf , they now believed that it was abandoning them . |
| 22 | For the moment we move forward believing that we are going in a direction to which we have already been prompted , and in the confidence that the holy spirit is working among us . |
| 23 | We might even have experienced a glow of self-righteousness , believing that we were helping to solve a , social problem' . |
| 24 | I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end , serving some plan — that all would come out well in the end , because there was some great plan over all . |
| 25 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 26 | By concentrating upon the physical consequences , the surgeons are deluding themselves and their patients into believing that they are helping the problem and that they are providing encouragement for the future . |
| 27 | There are people , ’ said the Norse troll , burning into sudden antagonistic fervour across his cavern-desk , ‘ who hypnotise themselves into believing that they are going to live for ever . ’ |
| 28 | And if I had known this my justification for believing that they are playing at home would be defeated , because I also believe that they normally accept such invitations . |
| 29 | And administrators who remembered the way their own adolescent energies and rivalries had been worked off in school sports tried unsuccessfully , but with remarkable persistence , to introduce football into the manyattas , believing that they were providing the moran with an attractive alternative to stock-raiding Major Clarence Buxton did not stop at football but — like an enterprising housemaster introducing an Outward Bound programme — organized lion hunts for his moran . |
| 30 | Social learning theory does not take into account the biological and genetic factors of nature however , in believing that everything is learnt and nothing is innate and sometimes these must be taken into account . |