Example sentences of "believe that [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 2 | There were indeed many influential soldiers and civilians who believed that the victorious New Model Army should now seek to export its religious revolution , and who in their more ecstatic moods talked of marching on Rome and of setting Cromwell 's chaplain , Hugh Peter , upon the throne of St Peter . |
| 3 | Ornithologists gave the bird a Christian foundation and believed that the first mute swans were brought to Great Britain by the Crusaders from Cyprus in 1192 . |
| 4 | Blum , on the other hand , was looking to a more distant future when the French might have to withdraw entirely and in order to maintain the position of influence in the future he believed that the only firm foundation was a break with the past . |
| 5 | Morgan believed that the only true descent groups were matrilineal , and that matrilineal descent groups — gens — were fundamentally different in organization from systems where descent was reckoned in the male line . |
| 6 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 7 | Hobhouse believed that the desirable spiritual regeneration of all classes in Britain required state prevention of the accumulation of excessive wealth and of exploitation , through redistributive measures , and would be assisted by the encouragement of self-help organizations such as trade unions . |
| 8 | And anyway , even those inside tennis circles who admired his talent , believed that the little known Czech was squandering it and on a one-way trip to Reggie Perrin 's Obscuresville , Arizona . |
| 9 | The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable . |
| 10 | Can one really believe that the grand unified theory has determined that Sinead O'Connor will be the top of the hit parade this week , or that Madonna will be on the cover of Cosmopolitan ? |
| 11 | The Royal Commission did not believe that the existing local authorities were in a position to meet the challenges they had identified . |
| 12 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 13 | I personally do n't believe that the average English citizen is any less proud of their own country than the average American . |
| 14 | Why should the voters believe that the next Labour government be any different from the past ? |
| 15 | Mr Ozal may believe that an established Kurdish group in northern Iraq might help to control the more radical PKK . |
| 16 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |
| 17 | It is clear that Robert de Sigillo did not write all the royal writs himself , although there is no reason to believe that a twelfth-century English king needed a permanent staff of more than half a dozen clerks , sometimes perhaps even less . |
| 18 | So far everything had gone our way , but it was hard to believe that the wily old campaigner would not have a few more tricks up his sleeve . |
| 19 | He observed initially that there were people ‘ who believe that a neutral foreign policy would guarantee the security of the Asian peoples , and that it would at first stabilise the situation and then ensure peace and security on the Asian continent ’ . |
| 20 | This can largely be avoided by careful handling , and many connoisseurs believe that a slight structural asymmetry adds to the rug 's overall character . |
| 21 | And I also believe that an elected Second Chamber to replace the Lords would feature people of much lesser ability and stature , who would be unable to speak their minds freely because they would be beholden to the same electorate as the Commons . |
| 22 | In the light of our results , we believe that the best clinical approach for an acute diagnosis of a Barrett 's oesophagus is the combination of endoscopic and manometric studies ; but how accurate is it to compare distances measured by manometry from distances measured by endoscopy ? |
| 23 | I believe that the right hon. Gentleman speaks for all our millions of fellow citizens . |
| 24 | I believe that the two prime requisites for good control are careful organisation and clarity . |
| 25 | Whichever view is accepted , most historians believe that the new political structure of the inter-war years was largely determined by 1918 , and the unemployment of the inter-war years is not crucial to either explanation of the structural changes which occurred in British politics . |
| 26 | Now you can come in every day , and sit and sort out your bumf , but I always believe that the great British public are out there , so the more time you spend out there , the more profit you 're gon na make , there 's less profit being in the branch . |
| 27 | We believe that the joint working party 's recommendations should include the routine use of such a device for people caring for patients who are known to be positive for HIV or hepatitis B virus and for high risk patients . |
| 28 | But many doctors around the world believe that the Canadian breast-screening programme is inaccurate . |
| 29 | I believe that the major political issue of the 1990s is going to be the Government itself . |
| 30 | His advancement of Gloucester can be criticized only by those who believe that the only good nobleman is an impotent nobleman . |