Example sentences of "[adv] believed [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOSE who fondly believed British tennis could get no worse have again been proved wrong . |
| 2 | The pre-existence of matriliny was important for Engels because he wrongly believed that matriliny , as opposed to patriliny , was associated with communal corporate descent groups . |
| 3 | Influenced by a learned correspondent , Girolamo Mei , a philologist and student of ancient Greek music and drama who rightly believed Greek music to have been monodic ( but seemingly supplied Galilei with thirteenth-century Byzantine melodies to Mesomedes ' hymns under the impression that they were ancient ) , Galilei argued that the polyphonic ‘ music of today is not of great value for expressing the passions of the mind by means of words , but is of value merely for the wind and stringed instruments , from which the ear … desires nothing but the sweet enjoyment of the variety of their harmonies … |
| 4 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure if there were any guns involved , but I think they possibly believed these people had guns on them . |
| 6 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 7 | English country folk once believed these beasts would hover over a house as a warning to the inmates to mend their ways . |
| 8 | Einstein fervently believed that quantum mechanics , if not inconsistent , was certainly incomplete . |
| 9 | He really believed that line of Blake 's : ‘ The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom ’ , something like that . |
| 10 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 11 | ’ And this from someone who firmly believed all cats had 666 tattooed on them somewhere under their fur ! |
| 12 | Sixty-four per cent said they certainly believed psychic experiences existed and a further seventeen per cent thought them probable . |
| 13 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 14 | I never believed that story myself . |