Example sentences of "he believed that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Professor Arie J. Zuckerman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who co-chaired the Geneva meeting , said he believed that a newly-developed vaccine could prevent 80 per cent of liver cancers and that 200 000 lives a year might be saved ‘ at a conservative estimate ’ .
2 ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities .
3 He believed that a generous gesture by Israel to accept back a large number might break the impasse , and generate an atmosphere conducive to an overall settlement .
4 He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save .
5 He believed that the political commitment existed to ensure that the independent countries of the region would co-operate effectively to reduce their dependence on South Africa , and accelerate economic development ; and that such a new grouping could influence decisively the way that offical development assistance was used in the region , and the course of development co-operation in general .
6 He believed that the two operations could be run with the staff of about ten employed by Pittencrieff at its office in Abilene , Texas , after closing Aberdeen 's office in Denver , Colorado , which has between ten and 15 staff .
7 He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ .
8 He believed that the only explanation for these results was the chimpanzees suddenly saw new relationships that were never learned in the past .
9 He believed that the greatest scientists should also be poets , for both recognized affinity , analogy and beauty ; and although to his biographer his mind seemed essentially Platonic , his greatest heroes were Aristotle , Linnaeus , Robert Brown and Goethe .
10 So far as Cold War issues were concerned , de Gaulle was an anti-Communist but he believed that the bi-polar world of the 1950s had brought an ever-present threat of nuclear conflagration and effectively left the Superpowers as the only states with true independence in foreign affairs .
11 He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions .
12 If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’
13 He believed that the true art of novel writing was to draw characters who became ‘ beacons ’ pointing to moral truths as well as vehicles of ‘ amusement ’ , and that :
14 But he believed that the subsequent provisions for bad debts on commercial loans were realistic .
15 It says he believed that the historical awareness will help any linguistic scene to profit .
16 He believed that the human capacity for moral , social , and political adaptation had been stretched to its limit in the first century of the Industrial Revolution and fatally outstripped since .
17 He believed that the English drama would be improved by the deliberate tackling of large subjects , subjects of political and philosophical weight .
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