Example sentences of "believe [that] it is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In either case the officer must have reasonable grounds for believing that it is necessary to seize the evidence there and then to prevent it being destroyed . |
| 2 | He is a good cook , believing that it is important for men to learn to cook so that if they marry a woman not too well versed in the culinary arts , they will still survive ! |
| 3 | I am at one with the hon. Gentleman in believing that it is important that we develop such a policy — but neither he nor I , nor anyone else , can say that any particular state of agriculture is frozen . |
| 4 | Faith , by contrast , approaches Jesus with a radically different attitude , recognising in him the revelation of the invisible God , believing that it is true that ‘ he who has seen me has seen the Father ’ . |
| 5 | I do not believe that it is helpful to suggest that the problem is widespread or in any way worrying , either for the consumer or for the farming industry as a whole . |
| 6 | I emphasise that I do not believe that it is right to agree to measures which are damaging to the Scottish or to the British economy , and we have not done so . |
| 7 | I do not believe that it is possible to make a heterosexual into a homosexual ... |
| 8 | I do not believe that it is possible to measure the consequences to our political life that flowed from his early death , following on so rapidly after the death of Aneurin Bevan . |
| 9 | I do not believe that it is possible to produce a predictive model of code switching , in other words , to derive inductively a set of rules which would predict the actual code of any " next utterance " in a conversation . |
| 10 | I apologise for the length of this letter but I do believe that it is essential that you have a clear understanding of what it is we are to do . |
| 11 | We do not believe that it is necessary to placate God in such a way . |
| 12 | He does not believe that it is necessary to like or even respect your movie co-star . |
| 13 | I do not believe that it is necessary for me to put into words the outrage of the House |
| 14 | What we have said what members have already resolved is that they do not believe that it is necessary for him to intervene . |
| 15 | As he describes himself he had been , during the nineties at Cambridge and afterwards , a rather worldly , flippant creature , erm but after this experience something changed within him , and he says , and I suppose , I think we must believe that it is true , that it was on account of this sort of moral mystical experience that his whole attitude to the world was changed , and he was provided with the peculiar moral strength to fight the battles , as he later did fight , against war and other such things . |
| 16 | On the cost to the European Community budget , I do not believe that it is sensible to have a system that costs more . |
| 17 | I can not believe that it is sensible to spend as much as we do at present per hectare on tobacco . |
| 18 | It does not mean that the person at whom the conduct is directed must believe that it is likely that violence will be provoked . |
| 19 | For example the most usual constraint we impose on ourselves is to believe that it is incumbent on us to carry out all the steps of a manufacturing process ourselves . |
| 20 | This problem has not yet been solved satisfactorily , but there is no reason to believe that it is incapable of solution . |
| 21 | One source close to Charles — 44 today — who has worked with him for years , said last night : ‘ It is incredible — almost impossible to believe that it is true . |
| 22 | We have already seen that , if the rate of interest is high , people will tend to believe that it is likely to fall and will thus not wish to hold speculative balances of money ; instead they will buy securities while their price is low and their rate of interest is still high . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A large proportion of the Company 's employees work outside the United Kingdom and the directors believe that it is appropriate to establish share option schemes for those employees which broadly mirror the UK schemes but which take account of the laws , securities requirements and tax regimes in the countries where the employees live and work . |
| 25 | There are some ( politicians and academics ) who believe that it is essential to give a more formal framework to our primary schools . |
| 26 | Alongside our desire to see new legislation , we believe that it is essential that positive action is taken immediately to tackle all existing minerals permissions . |
| 27 | Some believe that it is normative in an absolute sense ; that Christ revealed what is to be believed ( for example about divorce ) for all times . |
| 28 | Whether the Minister likes it or not , I believe that it is probable that MacSharry 's notions will be accepted . |
| 29 | They believe that it is necessary to look at the parents individually . |
| 30 | Quite simply , I believe that it is necessary to seduce real jobs and real industry into West Belfast by whatever means . |