Example sentences of "[pron] believed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason I believed that Dr Mumby should always have had full resuscitative equipment readily at hand . |
| 2 | Although my history was vague on the point , I believed that Victor was — in this development as elsewhere — some decades ahead of his time . |
| 3 | At first , I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed . |
| 4 | If someone believed that tables were better than chairs , we would think they were talking nonsense . |
| 5 | Fifteen years later , when everyone believed that computers were designed for advanced scientific work , business unexpectedly showed an interest in a machine that could do payroll . |
| 6 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 7 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 8 | Many of them believed that Eldorado 's launch in July was six months too early . |
| 9 | Neither of them believed that mankind was equal , or could ever be so , or would ever seriously wish to be so . |
| 10 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 11 | Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " . |
| 12 | There was the clear economic argument which believed that countries outside the EEC , particularly Britain with its preferential Commonwealth arrangements , would be in too advantageous a position . |
| 13 | I had once read a story by Arthur C. Clarke about a Tibetan sect which believed that God had nine billion names . |
| 14 | Their mother , who believed that Ali Reza would have been a stronger Shah and should succeed ( if not replace ) Muhammad Reza . |
| 15 | Although primarily designed to win over Catholic waverers , the new title was also preferred by some Protestant zealots who argued that only Jesus Christ could be the head of the church , as well as by those who believed that Elizabeth 's gender debarred her from assuming a quasi-episcopal role . |
| 16 | There had been trouble on Merseyside just once too often , and muddleheaded militants who believed that revolution was spawned in deprivation and poverty would be able to hold a little holiday in their hearts , secure in the knowledge that several more thousand British workers had been gulled into inflicting poverty and deprivation upon themselves . |
| 17 | For years , the only person who believed that Alfred Molina would ever become a star was his wife , actress Jill Gascoine , and he credits her for his new-found success . |
| 18 | This was the position argued some years ago by practitioners of la nouvelle critique , who believed that clarity in argument was a form of ideological mystification , reinforcing the status quo . |
| 19 | I knew no one in their sane senses who believed that Profumo was a spy , and in fact that suggestion was never made . |
| 20 | Western intelligence experts , who believed that North Korea had already built or was in the process of constructing a reprocessing facility capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium , were taken by surprise since satellite photographs had previously shown only two reactors . |
| 21 | The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success . |
| 22 | It was , therefore , in a sense government by amateurs ; and those like Socrates and Plato , who believed that government was a specialized skill like so many other forms of specialized work , naturally viewed the Athenian experiment with anger and contempt . |
| 23 | A militant who believed that South Africa , and indeed the continent of Africa , belonged to the black population , he was instrumental in founding the PAC in 1959 . |
| 24 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |
| 25 | As it happens , of course , this conclusion conforms to the observations of Freud , who believed that women had less sense of justice than men and are more often influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility . |
| 26 | Very few took the position of Ada Nield Chew , who saw clearly how the position of working wives was complicated by their reproductive function , and who believed that women 's sole responsibility for home and children represented the chief impediment to self-fulfilment . |
| 27 | This view accorded with the idealisation of married love in the work of Ruskin , Coventry Patmore and a range of writers on the domestic duties of wives and mothers , who believed that women 's fundamental task was to create a haven of peace , beauty and emotional security for their husbands and children . |
| 28 | At that time , a man who persuaded himself ‘ in the passion of a moment ’ that No meant Yes , or who believed that women who said ‘ No ’ never meant it , would have escaped liability even where recklessness was part of the mens rea of rape . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 30 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |