Example sentences of "[is] to believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead player A's payoff is increasing in the size of , so player A prefers to encourage the B t 's to believe that their type is large . |
| 2 | But the most important thing is to believe that you will survive . ’ |
| 3 | His bias is to believe that the general carries greater weight than the particular , and that uniqueness is somehow accidental or incidental to the world . |
| 4 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 5 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |
| 8 | Tempting though it is to believe that the top-priced grands vins must be the biggest bargains of all , the opposite is in fact the case . |
| 9 | How solemn it is to believe that Jesus is the son of God , the saviour of the world , and yet to reject him . |