Example sentences of "believe that [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they spoke in the debate just before the war , Neil Kinnock and Gerald Kaufman said that a vote for the adjournment would not be a vote for war , that we believed that sanctions should be given longer . |
| 2 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 3 | Moreover , economics apart , in the countries of the Old World the middle class believed that workers should be poor , not only because they had always been , but also because economic inferiority was a proper index of class inferiority . |
| 4 | Jacobs , the political adviser to Hodge , believed that steps must be taken leading to a permanent government in Korea : it would not be wise to accept a provisional government , since the Soviet Union had shown skill in eastern Europe in exploiting such a situation . |
| 5 | Only the United States had no state airline , and believed that airways should be open to free market capitalism : ‘ In general , the Chicago conference can be described … as an attempt by the United States to capitalise on its overwhelmingly strong bargaining position in international aviation by securing for itself a near monopoly of long-haul air transport . ' |
| 6 | But neither labelling patterns of resistance as unreasonable nor believing that managers can be manipulated into acceptance if it is against their interest , are adequate solutions . |
| 7 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 8 | At worst , it may even believe that paramilitaries can be a means of defence . |
| 9 | I do not believe that magistrates will be able to show any greater compassion or understanding that our own elected members . |
| 10 | There is a tendency for more junior staff to believe that reports should be made public and that the next report should again deal with the whole school rather than some part or aspect only . |
| 11 | However , given that such maps exist , I find it hard to believe that distances could be estimated by a method analogous to using Pythagoras ' theorem . |
| 12 | But as she began to believe that men could be gentle , caring and sensitive , such men appeared as if by magic ! |
| 13 | I believe that campaigns should be at least 70 per cent positive for your side and no more than 30 per cent knocking your opponents . |
| 14 | They wrongly believe that things can be put right by operating a framework where those on low pay can be paid even lower wages excuse me . |
| 15 | Some of us believe that efforts should be made to define subversion in terms which would involve illegal activity as opposed to nuisance , inconvenience , and the like . |
| 16 | I believe that artists can be part of society , and I am deeply involved in the Anglesey community . |
| 17 | We believe that plays should be approached through the dramatic medium ; children should often see or participate in the play being acted , and not just read the text . |
| 18 | I strongly believe that parents should be properly informed about the policies and practices of their schools ; that they should have the means regularly to voice their opinions and should indeed be represented on the governing bodies of schools , yet I believe too that there are dangers in allotting them too many constitutional powers . |
| 19 | By the year 2000 , experts believe that airbags will be saving some 9,000 lives per year in the US alone . |
| 20 | So we believe that unions should be effective , should be active trades councils should be effective , should be active , should be using modern methods , but without , and I stress this , without losing sight of our traditional concerns and values . |
| 21 | If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list . |
| 22 | There may well be those who believe that plants should be rigidly seasonal and I tend to agree but nature goes its own way and Galanthus nivalis subspecies reginae-olgae is a true end of year Snowdrop . |
| 23 | I had always believed that housewives must be different from you and me . |
| 24 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 25 | It is now believed that babies can be sensitized to food even before they are born , because a few food molecules , from food the mother eats , can reach the baby in her womb ( see p 246 ) . |
| 26 | Since he believes that students may be aided in drawing their own conclusions if writers make their own value biases explicit , it is particularly important to do this . |
| 27 | It is unfair , to say the least , in a country that increasingly believes that incentives should be the dominant motive force , that the interaction of taxation rates and benefit eligibility levels should preclude the least privileged from being able to improve their own lot . |
| 28 | If one believes that industries should be owned by the government then one will argue that the level of taxation should be such that , taken with the government 's other financial resources , it should provide capital for investment wherever the government considers it necessary . |
| 29 | Age Concern believes that GPs should be encouraged to make rational , efficient , effective and economic use of resources in relation to prescribing , and that the use of drugs for elderly people should be closely monitored . |
| 30 | ISS believes that standards will be raised , not just by reforms in curriculum and assessment , but by making schools generally more effective . |