Example sentences of "believe that there [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgan and Engels believed that there were several peoples who still practices group marriage . |
| 2 | How far " out " , were the Greeks in believing that there were 360 days in a year ? |
| 3 | Britain had been equally emphatic about the EDC , believing that there were simpler ways of achieving West German rearmament . |
| 4 | I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On his way home the son did not believe that there was any possibility of his father forgiving him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I did not believe that there were large savings to be made simply from reducing the size of the rail network . |
| 10 | that he had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , or |
| 11 | This reading of the section is reinforced by the existence of the defence in section 5(3) ( a ) that the actor had no reason to believe that there was any person within sight or hearing likely to suffer harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a defence for the accused to prove — ( a ) that he had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , or ( b ) that he was inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe that the words or behaviour used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation displayed , would be heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling , or ( c ) that his conduct was reasonable . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Shiites believe that there were eleven Imams after Ali and that the twelfth Imam disappeared from human view around then ninth century but still exists in spirit . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was lucky enough not to be on his list , but it was widely believed that there were more arrests to come . |
| 18 | It was generally believed that there was some animosity between ‘ Lenny ’ and Herbert von Karajan , although this has never been shown to be true , so the atmosphere in the Philharmonie was electric . |