Example sentences of "believe that a [adj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is believed that a foreign body was dislodged , fell on the track and derailed the bogie . |