Example sentences of "believe that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors believed that their serological results supported the view that infection with M paratuberculosis might cause Crohn 's disease . |
| 2 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 3 | Like Wilson , Nixon believed that his national mandate gave him a legitimacy that the legislature lacked , a body that was , ‘ cumbersome , undisciplined , isolationist , fiscally irresponsible , overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities , and too dominated by the media ’ . |
| 4 | Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court . |
| 5 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 6 | They believe that their accepted right to control prisoners and wield power over them is threatened by the development of welfare services and personnel within prisons and the ( gradual and still fairly minimal but growing ) recognition of prisoners ' rights . |
| 7 | ‘ Taken at face value individual companies would have us believe that their particular stance has been determined by purely altruistic considerations , such as meeting customer demand , protecting staff or defending religious principles . |
| 8 | I believe that my provisional proposals remain appropriate . |
| 9 | I believe that my own children have rebelled properly and decently , and found their own paths . |
| 10 | Gingrich had been the first to lay formal charges which had led to the resignation on June 6 of the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Jim Wright [ see p. 36650 ] , and it was widely believed that his own investigation had been initiated in revenge in April by Representative Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) who on Oct. 26 filed new charges against Gingrich for alleged misuse of campaign funds and of congressional stationery . |