Example sentences of "believe that the [noun] is " in BNC.

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1 Julian Huxley , the biologist and writer , believed that the intellect is the sum of all emotions .
2 On the one hand there are those who consider it only one step away from witchcraft , believing that the hypnotherapist is able to subjugate the will and dominate the mind of his unconscious victim .
3 Sometimes you can be exhilarated , believing that the painting is a masterpiece or , alternatively , a look in the mirror may tell you that it is just a jumble and the eye does n't focus anywhere .
4 The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) .
5 Ironically , the generosity of the IWA in guaranteeing funds to enable the question of the Rights of Way Act to be taken to the Court of Appeal seems to have resulted in many believing that the issue is only the concern of the ‘ powered boaters ’ .
6 Having lived through the case in considerable detail since the writ was delivered in 1989 , nearly seven years after the audit report in question was signed off , I think I can say that there are some better grounds for believing that the result is good for the profession than are implied in your brief summary .
7 State 4 to State 3 — usually if the approximate number of blocks for an item was estimated too low , resulting in Offline believing that the item is full even though there is physically more space available
8 Even if I also ca n't help believing that the world is bound to end soon .
9 It is an intellectual leap of the same order as believing that the world is round .
10 There are several reasons for believing that the answer is a resounding Yes .
11 We do n't believe that the government is correct in their view of what the city needs .
12 We can believe that the pub is universally respected and prized and that there is common cause and common understanding between owners , operators and users alike .
13 Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real , when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real , but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation " .
14 There are already law faculties which offer an extended course for European languages and I do believe that the expertise is available to set up more of such centres .
15 Some , who have experienced only the old-style rote learning of facts and dates , may well believe that the subject is already educationally bankrupt and will take a great deal of persuading that history is not only educationally solvent and viable but is vital to the balance and well-being of the curricular economy of the 1990s .
16 If it is thought that it means that any decision should be taken at the lowest possible level , that unfortunately makes me believe that the concept is not all that it is cracked up to be , and for a number of reasons .
17 Because I ca n't believe if you come in the off peak periods there really are n't that many people here erm I ca n't believe that the phone is so busy that that we 're actually being stopped in making from reservations .
18 Thus , he argued , while we may well believe that the world is in fact designed by God , we can not prove it .
19 I share some of my hon. Friend 's views , but I do not believe that the House is yet ready to accept a proposal from the Government that will command wide support from a large number of hon. Members .
20 Shoppers can not believe that the process is so straightforward .
21 It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state .
22 But it would be naive in the extreme to believe that the system is always unjust .
23 At first it is easy to believe that the child is engaged in an equal dialogue with a machine intelligence , so apposite are some of the replies .
24 The first do n't is not to believe that the child is lazy because he or she is not managing to spell .
25 There is every reason to believe that the recession is coming to an end .
26 This leads me to believe that the encyclopaedia is comprehensive , although it may be more accessible to readers who have some minimal knowledge of the area they are investigating .
27 ( 2 ) This section also applies if , at any time after 9th June 1988 , a landlord ( in this section referred to as " the landlord in default " ) or any person acting on behalf of the landlord in default — ( a ) attempts unlawfully to deprive the residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or part of the premises , or ( b ) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( i ) to give up his occupation of the premises or any part thereof , or ( ii ) to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or any part thereof , does acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of the residential occupier or members of his household , or persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises as a residence , and , as a result , the residential occupier gives up his occupation of the premises as a residence .
28 It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection .
29 I y c Yes , debates in cabinet perhaps , but we 're not talking about debates in cabinet , we 're talking about speeches made at Blackpool or at fringe meetings of Blackpool , which lead people to believe that the government is moving substantially towards the right .
30 With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks .
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