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 | Carleton believed that hard-line Protestants like himself were the queen 's only reliable subjects , her very ‘ bowels ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system . |
| 6 | Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Macedo believes that uniting development and preservation is not only possible , but essential . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hearnden believed that elaborate inspections of schools are unnecessary . |
| 14 | For instance , does Professor Lee believe that professional accountants should not also be commercial ? |
| 15 | Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early . |
| 16 | OUP believes that modern methods of electronic data processing can be adapted to the tasks required for the production of a new OED . |
| 17 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |
| 18 | Resistance sources in Peshawar believe that hard-line Pushtun leader Gulbeddin Hekmatyar , who is attacking Bagram , may try to stage a coup in Kabul — something he attempted two years ago — denying the northern minorities power . |
| 19 | Marx believed that capitalist values were completely determined by considerations of productivity . |
| 20 | Apart from the basic contradictions of capitalist society , Marx believed that certain factors in the natural development of a capitalist economy will hasten its downfall . |
| 21 | Marx believed that Western society had developed through four main epochs : primitive communism , ancient society , feudal society and capitalist society . |
| 22 | However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system . |
| 23 | Both Smith and Goodman believe that skilled adult reading is far from error-free , and that errors can be a positive sign that the sense of the text has been grasped . |
| 24 | Diderot believed that political rights belonged to property-owners , and Voltaire similarly identified " the people " with the middle class . |
| 25 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 26 | Cairns-Smith believes that organic molecules were prominent among non-replicating ‘ tools ’ of his inorganic crystalline replicators . |
| 27 | Weber believes that social stratification results from a struggle for scarce resources in society . |
| 28 | If they last , Phillips believes that joint ventures may hold the answer and thinks that the new shareholders who will take stakes after the existing owners are forced to divest themselves of 51% of ITN could provide the answer . |
| 29 | British diplomats in Tokyo believed that increasing signs of restlessness could be perceived and that it would not be wise to delay a peace treaty for much longer . |
| 30 | Despite not committing himself about specific grievances , Woolf believed that genuine injustice contributes to a lack of legitimacy which in turn makes disorder more likely . |