Example sentences of "[noun] believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langdon believed that American determination to resist Soviet expansion in Korea had to be demonstrated and that the current unpopularity of communists in the south should be used to encourage the moderates in north Korea . |
| 2 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 3 | Hoskyns believed that these new methods could prove that the alleged contrast between Jesus and Paul was wrong ; and that there was an identity between the Jesus who lived in Palestine and the Christ who was the object of the faith of the apostolic Church . |
| 4 | Carleton believed that hard-line Protestants like himself were the queen 's only reliable subjects , her very ‘ bowels ’ . |
| 5 | But it is wishful thinking to believe that these complementary methods could instantly and completely replace the use of animals . |
| 6 | what did fraud oh Freud believe that most sons wanted to do to their mothers ? |
| 7 | ‘ You encourage your readers to believe that one day their prince will come . ’ |
| 8 | But if Marxists believe that liberal democratic input politics can open state organizations to accommodating class struggle , then their arguments threaten to blur into those of pluralists or democratic elite theorists . |
| 9 | THE ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND THE DESIGNERS BELIEVE THAT ALL STATEMENTS HEREIN ARE CORRECT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS AND CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS . |
| 10 | Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse . |
| 11 | Researchers at the Woolwich Centre for Computer Crime Research believe that improved personnel procedures have a key role to play in improving internal controls . |
| 12 | Many City pundits believe that new debt to equity ratios indicate how confident companies are about investments . |
| 13 | The tournament moves to Wembley today and Wright believes that this will prove to be to her advantage because the Perspex court is better suited to her slower style of play . |
| 14 | Sue Punton , the senior sister at the hospital 's gerontology department believes that essential oils help geriatric patients in several ways . |
| 15 | Labour believes that this unique inter-racial and inter-hemispheric organization can play a central role in fighting racism , hunger and human rights violations . |
| 16 | The poet believes that any sensual experience will present an obstacle to his complete and serene inner contemplation , a state he is trying to achieve in his mind to gain perfection in an imperfect world . |
| 17 | The outer space committee of the United Nations believes that remote-sensing satellites with a resolution of 25 m could be militarily useful . |
| 18 | It follows that even if the defender believes that this is the most appropriate method of proceeding , the pursuer can not be compelled to use Section 12 . |
| 19 | Jean Jacques Rousseau , famous French philosopher , whose view of human nature , was what I would call optimistic , in the sense that , by contrast to Thomas Hobbes , John Rousseau believed that human beings were basically good . |
| 20 | Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system . |
| 21 | Aristotle believed that all the matter in the universe was made up of four basic elements , earth , air , fire , and water . |
| 22 | Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions . |
| 23 | The sorcerers believed that that would weaken the strong kinship that would exist between you . ’ |
| 24 | The Committee believed that this raised two issues for consideration . |
| 25 | Reformers believed that one way of preventing these marriages was to provide clubs with attractive and organized recreational facilities in the hope that ‘ the girl who has her clubs will not need the idle companionship of lads ’ . |
| 26 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 27 | Whereas Herodotus transformed ‘ history ’ ( historia ) from a general enquiry about the world into an enquiry about past events , Thucydides believed that serious history could be concerned only with the present , or the immediate past . |
| 28 | Bishop believed that change was essential and reported on his return to Washington that there was undue complacency in Tokyo ; the vested interests in the occupation bureaucracy believed that American dominance in Japan must be continued for a considerable period and Bishop held that tough action would be required in order to transform attitudes and to terminate the occupation . |
| 29 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 30 | But ministeres believe that custodial sentences would not provide a simple answer . |