Example sentences of "believe that [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last of the bedsheets , ripped into ribbons , had been torn away but he believed that they were well north of the Makaa . |
| 2 | The UK joined the USA in declaring from Aug. 13 that it would enforce UN sanctions , believing that there was sufficient legitimacy for this on the basis of a request from the Kuwaiti Emir in exile , but obtaining UN endorsement on Aug. 25 for the use of appropriate " measures " to verify the cargoes and destination of shipping . |
| 3 | It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique . |
| 4 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 5 | I did not believe that there were large savings to be made simply from reducing the size of the rail network . |
| 6 | In their study of a sample of divorcees , Thornes and Collard ( 1979 ) found that wives tended to believe that there were marital problems much earlier on in the marriage . |
| 7 | Havelock Ellis , who deplored the tendency of earlier Victorian scientific research to belittle women 's intellectual capacities , nevertheless believed that there were essential advantages to women remaining in their ‘ proper sphere ’ . |
| 8 | Similarly , though he insisted on doctrine which he considered essential to the Anglican faith , he did not require conformity on non-essentials , and also believed that there were divine mysteries on which it was idle to speculate . |