Example sentences of "[adv] believed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miliutin rightly believed that this practice gave rise to major administrative complications . |
| 2 | And in the recent article he had read on the subject , even the sergeant in charge of the course had not believed that any woman would take his one piece of infallible advice . |
| 3 | It was generally believed that this would increase their efficiency in line with private industry . |
| 4 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 5 | It is normally believed that this arose through my friendship with Harold Wilson . |
| 6 | Although a homeowner myself , I have always believed that communal ownership on a small scale would solve many problems associated with terminal illness or permanent disablement . |
| 7 | Dustin has always believed that some of the cinema 's best moments have come out of improvisation . |
| 8 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 9 | Like Marx , the first generation of communists after 1917 still believed that this process of relentless industrialization would speed the emergence of a society without want or privilege , based on the maxim , ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his needs . ’ |
| 10 | He had mistakenly believed that total retirement from first-class cricket was necessary before he could avail himself of the pension fund for West Indies Test cricketers . |
| 11 | Surveys had shown that many consumers mistakenly believed that these had been officially approved . |
| 12 | Juliana had mistakenly believed that large earrings and wide belts would just draw attention to her size ( being tall makes her feel big ) but , in fact , anything too small looks insipid and unnoticeable . |
| 13 | Ministers ostensibly believed that economic progress had been limited by control , regulation and over-taxation . |
| 14 | The developers also believed that many of the near-miss cases could also be solved by using some simple morphological and/or syntactic analysis . |
| 15 | But it is also believed that such cellular circulation develops on smooth coasts with uniform offshore bottom topography . |
| 16 | Fabians also believed that public welfare had a vital role to play in integrating society , alleviating social conflict and promoting the expression of altruistic sentiments countering , if partially , the atomism , selfishness and inequalities of capitalist market economies . |
| 17 | The public clearly believed that this ‘ restoration ’ would enhance the building 's interest despite destroying an historic element ; he must also have felt that a new timber framed facade , despite its inauthenticity , would give the pub an ‘ historic ’ character that was more readily recognisable and instantly attractive to potential customers . |
| 18 | A large part of the dominant society at the time really believed that such subjects , and suggestions were more a figment of my neurosis and my hang-ups but time has proven that view to be untrue . |
| 19 | Though he 'd never really believed that any woman would behave that coldly and that violently in response to an attack . |
| 20 | It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt . |
| 21 | It was widely believed that all restrictions on economic relations would be removed once an appropriate formula of agreement could be devised which would be acceptable to nationalist sensitivities . |
| 22 | It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks . |
| 23 | In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia . |
| 24 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 25 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 26 | It was widely believed that 78-year-old President Kim Il Sung — around whom an extraordinary personality cult had been created — desired that his son should succeed him , but that the younger Kim lacked sufficient authority within either the ruling party or the army to be sure of a smooth succession . |
| 27 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 28 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |
| 29 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 30 | And it was popularly believed that those ideas were n't prevalent until much later presumably . |