Example sentences of "[pron] believed [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 22 , 1989 , Ogonek published a poll , only 12 per cent of respondents to which believed that perestroika ( " restructuring " ) would lead to significant positive change ; only 23 per cent said that their living standards had improved over the previous two to three years . |
| 2 | Nobody believed this explanation . |
| 3 | Ken Livingstone , now a humble Labour backbencher , was leader of the GLC and guru of those who believed rainbow-coalition politics was coming to Britain . |
| 4 | In short , comparing individuals in a survey who thought that candidate A would win with those who believed that candidate B would win would not be comparing two groups similar in all possible other respects , unlike the experiment discussed above . |
| 5 | After all , there was a time when those who believed that abortion — by whatever means — should be legalised , were in a minority . |
| 6 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you believed brave men were fools . ’ |
| 8 | Miss Glover , in one of her few interventions , said warmly that she believed such things could and did happen . |
| 9 | She believed cheap clothes could be made elegant by paring them down to essentials . |
| 10 | Nor is it impossible that she believed this legend . |
| 11 | No one believed this explanation . |
| 12 | We believed this conference would benefit from the IFI 's explanation of the criteria by which those projects were chosen and those amounts allocated . |
| 13 | And because of that — because each new life was a fresh chance to live purely — they believed all life was sacred . ’ |
| 14 | They were all for nationalization , because they believed that nationalization was the only way to solve the problems of the development the future development of the railways . |
| 15 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 16 | A Ford spokesman said he believed industrial action was a long way off . |
| 17 | Ford personnel director John Hougham said he believed industrial action was still a long way off . |
| 18 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 19 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 21 | He believed that rationality , as distinct from rationalism , required fidelity to the knowledge we have acquired of how to conduct specific activities . |
| 22 | It was also important for him because he believed that matriliny , the reckoning of group membership in terms of who one 's mother was , was associated with a high status for women . |
| 23 | He believed that evolution worked by orthogenesis , in which rigidly predetermined trends drove variation in a particular direction whatever the needs of the organism . |
| 24 | He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning . |
| 25 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 26 | He told the Guardian that he believed senior management took deliberate steps to hush up the dangers . |
| 27 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 28 | He believed some movement in the case would be made by the end of this month . |
| 29 | An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 . |