Example sentences of "believe [pron] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we genuinely believe everyone to be entitled to education , then we must reject the aristocratic distinction between an education fit only for workers and one fit for philosopher-kings ; but we Must equally reject the new assumption that only those who are receiving a scientific education are being ‘ properly ’ educated ; the rest , those who are studying arts , being relegated to the position of drones or parasites to be , at best , tolerated , and seen as ‘ enriching ’ themselves . |
| 2 | Project teams might resent policy decisions of senior managers because they believe them to be inappropriate to the problems of the organisation ; line managers might resent ‘ free- wheeling ’ ‘ undisciplined ’ members of project teams . |
| 3 | Although Todorov advances no ‘ general hypothesis ’ about the articulation of literary themes , he does , as a structuralist , believe them to be finite and knowable : |
| 4 | Of course , it is my belief about what is right or what is wrong ; if I believe something to be right , I am prepared to do it , whilst if I believe it to be wrong I am not . |
| 5 | Idleness is feared there with good reason , and also to an obsessive degree , for , as has been observed , if men believe something to be true , it is true in its consequences . |
| 6 | If people believe something to be true , then its consequences are the same , whether or not it is actually true . |
| 7 | Their understanding of social action is a ‘ realist ’ one , in so far as they believe there to be general , deep-lying mechanisms affecting human conduct which are triggered in different ways by contingent social circumstances . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe it to be appropriate . ’ |
| 9 | So far as the main thrust of the honourable gentleman 's question is concerned er he will know that we believe it to be right and indeed in the interests of all the people in Northern Ireland that the British and Irish government should work closely together . |
| 10 | I believe it to be central . |
| 11 | We can therefore generalize from one experiment in which short-term storage is believed to operate to another in which we also believe it to be present . |
| 12 | Though LMS is widely felt to have reduced the scope for staffing enhancement in primary schools , we believe it to be essential that schools retain the broader managerial repertoire which PNP has encouraged . |
| 13 | Of course , it is my belief about what is right or what is wrong ; if I believe something to be right , I am prepared to do it , whilst if I believe it to be wrong I am not . |
| 14 | I want to stress this connection between searching for home and finding a tongue , a writing voice , because I believe it to be fundamental to your own writing development . |
| 15 | ‘ The People ’ , endearingly , believe it to be true . |
| 16 | But I also believe it to be true . |
| 17 | But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern . |
| 18 | I believe it to be true of all such moves that they are dubiously orthodox . |
| 19 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |
| 20 | Now , I believe it to be true that before this tour — with one exception — none of you had known each other . |
| 21 | The fact that the Government retained executive detention on the statute book by a free act last year is an indication that the Government believe it to be important that the instrument should be available . |
| 22 | It is startling when things and people suddenly appear without being heard , particularly when you believe yourself to be alone in a room . |