Example sentences of "[noun pl] believed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jews believed that God controlled everything : the forces of nature , Israel as his chosen people and also the destiny of all other nations . |
| 2 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 3 | When the course began in 1976 its tutors believed that content was more important than process . |
| 4 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 5 | Third parties believed that Unkiar-Skelessi marked a further stage in Russia 's southward advance . |
| 6 | Many contemporaries believed that Richard was unwilling to wait until the two Kings had completed their long-drawn-out preparations . |
| 7 | Contemporaries believed that Edward was persuaded to revive his claim in 1337 by Robert of Artois who , according to a story which may well be apocryphal and which has attracted widely differing interpretations , placed a heron before the king at a banquet . |
| 8 | Some 50% of Britons and 38% of Germans believed that Mr Reagan 's foreign policy had increased the dangers of war in Europe . |
| 9 | He said teachers in the humanities believed that pupils were obtaining grades they could not possibly achieve in exams . |
| 10 | It has been seen that French wartime planners believed that France could gain from European economic co-operation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Armenians believed that Ararat was the centre of the world ; but the mountain was divided between three great empires , and the Armenians ended up with none of it , so I sha n't continue this comparison . |
| 18 | In The Times Higher Education Supplement David Hencke reported that many college and polytechnic directors believed that universities ‘ are relaxing their validation standards to enable former colleges of education to start new arts and science degrees ’ , and quoted Edwin Kerr as being confident that colleges succeeding with CNAA validation would consider it to have been worthwhile . |
| 19 | Although conservatives believed that juries were appropriate only in societies whose population had already achieved a degree of sophistication , reformers argued that they could promote the social responsibility from which they were supposed to emerge . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The early testers believed that tests would open doors to disadvantaged people , not close them . |
| 22 | Moreover , many officials believed that chenas caused soil erosion and that the grains produced on them were unhealthy . |
| 23 | Around 60% of participants believed that laws covering industrial pollutants and effluents , and recycling , were not tough enough , and virtually all thought that industry should place a high priority on cutting pollution and conserving energy . |
| 24 | Most observers believed that south Korea would eventually be unified by north Korea with the support or at the instigation of the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Observers believed that RENFE sometimes loaded items onto the capital account in order to reduce the apparent deficit , and sometimes did the reverse , boosting current costs in order to be able to get a higher grant from the state . |
| 26 | Observers believed that Alia was taking the opportunity of the embassy sit-ins to strengthen the hand of the reformers in the party and government . |
| 27 | For , since the Egyptians believed that Osiris had actually lived in their land long ago , his cult signified that a particular historical event , in this case the death and resurrection of Osiris , could be perpetually repeated by magical simulation so that its supposed good effects could benefit those persons on whose behalf the rites were performed . |
| 28 | of foreign firms believed that Britain 's industrial relations improved significantly in the 1980s . |
| 29 | Scopes had broken the law and so lost his case , but many Americans believed that Darrow had won a moral victory . |
| 30 | 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 . |