Example sentences of "believe [that] [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was accused , quite erroneously , of siphoning money from school funds he honestly believed that everyone would realise that there 'd been a mistake . ’ |
| 2 | What Aggie did n't know about the ways of loose women , prostitutes , and pimps was n't worth learning , but it was a business and she believed that everybody should mind their own business . |
| 3 | Ada believed that nobody could grudge you the right to complain . |
| 4 | She says : ‘ Many must be going through hell and are frightened to ask for help , believing that nobody will understand their turmoil . |
| 5 | Within this framework , the feat of believing that someone will come the day after tomorrow does not seem at all out of the way . |
| 6 | Does he believe that one can get blood out of a stone ? |
| 7 | I think they just could n't believe that anyone would do that to them . |
| 8 | I ca n't honestly believe that anyone can question whether or not Wilko should be manager . |
| 9 | I could n't believe that anyone could love me and a lady equally , although I 've had a lot of experiences since and I 've known a lot of men and a lot of women since who have loved both sexes . |
| 10 | I could n't believe that anyone could live their life and not be surrounded by brilliant objects and colours . |
| 11 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 12 | Jan Hurak , from Poland , who was third last year , does not believe that anyone will run away from the field , as the Russians did last year . |
| 13 | Francis was n't the sort to make friends and influence people but I ca n't believe that anybody would want to murder him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's hard to believe that anyone would go to such lengths , is n't it ? ’ |
| 15 | Twice in Morocco he was arrested and interrogated as a spy by the French Foreign Legion who refused to believe that anyone would spend their holidays cycling across the desert in temperatures of 48 ’ C. |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ Luce whispered , unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman 's finger . |
| 17 | She refused to believe that anyone could start at that age ; she 'd been sixteen when hers had started . |
| 18 | The Xingu man fled back to the forest , unable to believe that anyone could wish to live in such a place . |
| 19 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 20 | It is hard to believe that anything can survive in such a hostile environment . |
| 21 | Her mind refused to believe that anything could happen the first time one had intercourse . |
| 22 | It was easy to believe that anything could have happened here . |
| 23 | I was so innocent that in spite of our so-called training , of all the propaganda , I had never really been able to believe that someone might want to kill me . |
| 24 | She still found it hard to believe that someone would go to all that trouble just for her . |
| 25 | We believe that everyone will need to use the private car more selectively — possibly cycling or walking for short journeys or using public transport where this is possible . ’ |
| 26 | They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion . |
| 27 | At the beginning of this century it was believed that one could find a basic element of learning that was common to all these activities ; and that once this was established it would be possible to construct a single theory that would explain all learning and would provide a once-and-for-all guide to teaching . |