Example sentences of "believe that [art] [adj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him . |
| 2 | At the time , most observers believed that the real reason was that the BBC had been unable to persuade the newly-elected Conservative government to contribute towards the cost of setting up ( about £3million at 1977 prices ) or running a dedicated traffic service . |
| 3 | Indeed , one school of thought believed that the female brain was biologically different from that of the male . |
| 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 | Rather than regarding an Anglo-French Union as a core of European unity , Churchill believed that the essential beginning was reconciliation between France and Germany . |
| 6 | In the late 1960s most economic commentators believed that the long boom was permanent . |
| 7 | Not so many years ago , this would have been a non-question : Christians believed that the Star was one of God 's miracles , while scientists , by and large , believed that the whole story was a myth . |
| 8 | Here there was an additional complication in that Euric and his people were arian Christians , who believed that the Holy Trinity was a hierarchy , in which the Father , Son and Holy Ghost were not equal , while the majority of the Gallo-Romans , including Sidonius , were catholics , and insisted on the equality of the three persons in the Godhead . |
| 9 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 12 | And John of Salisbury was not alone in believing that the administrative class was in dire need of instruction , lest it subvert the common good in its own or its master 's interests . |
| 13 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |
| 14 | He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards . |
| 15 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 16 | In view of what occurred later , one may believe that the young man was intoxicated . |
| 17 | There was little point in my merely presenting a Moonie world-view — the Moonies themselves can do that — but I did want to try to make their religion and its effects comprehensible to others who wanted to understand how well-educated and intelligent people from ‘ good homes ’ could lead the kind of life they did because they had come to believe that a strange Korean was the Messiah and must be obeyed . |
| 18 | Truman and most those advising him had come to believe that the Soviet Union was aiming to spread the Communist system whenever and wherever it could : to Poland , Bulgaria , Rumania , Hungary . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend should accept from me that his powerful case is ample justification for his award as Back Bencher of the year and why I believe that a serious error was committed in West Bromwich on Saturday . |
| 20 | Researchers believe that the ecological balance was upset by the decision to introduce the Nile perch into the lake in 1960 . |
| 21 | I believe that the real problem was that , before 1988 , magistrates were under pressure from the Home Office not to award custodial sentences . |
| 22 | I believe that the old chapel was predominately a wayside chapel serving both the few local people and travellers , also being used by sheep drovers who used the lane to drive sheep from Meopham and Luddesdown , down to the meadows beside the river . |
| 23 | It is believed that a foreign body was dislodged , fell on the track and derailed the bogie . |
| 24 | It was believed that the principal rumour-monger was poor George Brown . |
| 25 | Originally it was believed that the preferred hand was a reliable indicator of the speech-dominant hemisphere . |
| 26 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
| 27 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 28 | It is believed that the last trip was run on April 16th , and eventually the Ministry of Defence advertised the track and other materials for sale by tender , the closing date being 4th October 1966 . |
| 29 | This house believes that the British Govt. was solely responsible for the improvements in the quality of life of the British working class in the 19th Century . |
| 30 | One prominent scholar of Italian paintings believes that the National Gallery was ill served by the loan which seems to have been a rather persuasive pre-sale exhibition for the benefit of Lady Cook . |