Example sentences of "[noun prp] believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langdon believed that American determination to resist Soviet expansion in Korea had to be demonstrated and that the current unpopularity of communists in the south should be used to encourage the moderates in north Korea . |
| 2 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 3 | Hoskyns believed that these new methods could prove that the alleged contrast between Jesus and Paul was wrong ; and that there was an identity between the Jesus who lived in Palestine and the Christ who was the object of the faith of the apostolic Church . |
| 4 | Carleton believed that hard-line Protestants like himself were the queen 's only reliable subjects , her very ‘ bowels ’ . |
| 5 | what did fraud oh Freud believe that most sons wanted to do to their mothers ? |
| 6 | The tournament moves to Wembley today and Wright believes that this will prove to be to her advantage because the Perspex court is better suited to her slower style of play . |
| 7 | Jean Jacques Rousseau , famous French philosopher , whose view of human nature , was what I would call optimistic , in the sense that , by contrast to Thomas Hobbes , John Rousseau believed that human beings were basically good . |
| 8 | Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system . |
| 9 | Aristotle believed that all the matter in the universe was made up of four basic elements , earth , air , fire , and water . |
| 10 | Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions . |
| 11 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 12 | Whereas Herodotus transformed ‘ history ’ ( historia ) from a general enquiry about the world into an enquiry about past events , Thucydides believed that serious history could be concerned only with the present , or the immediate past . |
| 13 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 14 | Not least was the announcement that Fiat will build a car plant in the Soviet Union , a move described candidly by one Fiat official in the Guardian : ‘ Fiat believes that Eastern Europe will become the new Korea of the motor industry , except this time cheap production will be available on our doorstep , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I quote from the declared aims and policies of CND : ’ CND believes that British independent nuclear weapons and American nuclear bases and weapons in Britain do nothing to increase the security of Britain and should be unilaterally and unconditionally rejected and removed . ’ |
| 16 | The AEA believes that some of the waste could still be properly and safely cleared if a decision to this effect was taken soon . |
| 17 | Donald Gould believes that some heroic attempts to save life are misguided |
| 18 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 19 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 20 | Many Serbs believe that such a concession would soon lead to a demand for secession . |
| 21 | Macedo believes that uniting development and preservation is not only possible , but essential . |
| 22 | Mr McKiernan believes that this service will have an even more important role to play in the financial services sector in the future . |
| 23 | Mr Llambias believes that many potential mergers founder because news of talks gets out , pointing to past examples such as Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen , Touche Ross and De-loittes UK and Clark Pixley and Temple Gothard . |
| 24 | Bryant believes that any benefits and drawbacks can then be weighed up more clearly before a commitment is made . |
| 25 | Mrs D'Ancona believes that this will allow each museum director to take his own stand on this controversial issue . |
| 26 | The woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years , and probably suffered from haemophilia , touched the cloak of Jesus believing that this was all she had to do to be healed . |
| 27 | It is the only one where someone touched Jesus believing that this was all they had to do to be healed . |
| 28 | Unlike Eisenhower ( who had argued in 1959 , that if the Soviets really intended to make trouble they could be deterred only with the threat of nuclear war ) , Kennedy believed that Western diplomacy should be backed up by increased conventional forces on the continent . |
| 29 | Hearnden believed that elaborate inspections of schools are unnecessary . |
| 30 | Indeed Hamilton believed that all 3-dimensional systems had to have divisors of zero and considered the fact that the quaternions had no divisors of zero to be one of its chief merits . |