Example sentences of "[noun pl] believed that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 2 | When the course began in 1976 its tutors believed that content was more important than process . |
| 3 | Third parties believed that Unkiar-Skelessi marked a further stage in Russia 's southward advance . |
| 4 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 5 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 6 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 7 | Thus , in Wiseman v. Borneman the Inland Revenue Commissioners believed that part of the Finance Act concerning share transactions was applicable to the case before them ; the taxpayer objected and entered a statutory declaration setting out his reasons . |
| 8 | These philosophers and reformers believed that promotion of happiness could safely be entrusted to men and women themselves , without divine intervention , since they were innately good ; but some had misgivings about how to hold onto Christian charity . |
| 9 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 10 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 11 | Most observers believed that south Korea would eventually be unified by north Korea with the support or at the instigation of the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | The Americans believed that priority should be given to the restructuring of the European economies in the long term whereas the British were preoccupied with what they argued was a short-term dollar crisis . |
| 13 | Despite these problems , and the fact that the particles in the supergravity theories did not seem to match the observed particles , most scientists believed that supergravity was probably the right answer to the problem of the unification of physics . |
| 14 | To start with the good news , 77% of respondents believed that audit regulation had improved the quality of auditing in their practices . |
| 15 | On the American side the multilateralists believed that protectionism in the United States might be weakened if they could win a demonstrable success against Imperial Preference . |
| 16 | Was not the reason why the House thought it not plain that their lordships believed that Parliament did not have this situation in mind and would have cut down the wording if it had ? |
| 17 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 18 | Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling . |
| 19 | Others believed that nervousness over forced repatriation might have been a contributory factor in the incident , following the October 1991 agreement between the United Kingdom and Vietnam [ see p. 38531 ] that any refugees arriving after that date would be returned home . |