Example sentences of "[noun prp] believed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could be further from the truth than Kate Millett 's accusation that Freud believed that women 's destiny was a simple outcome of their biology . |
| 2 | Lucretius believed that worms were spontaneously generated in mud . |
| 3 | Ken believed that Orton was the man to whom to go when he was down . |
| 4 | Rebecca believed that Lissa could bring about her downfall , and she was almost bound to try to do something about it . |
| 5 | Genscher told a news conference that Germany believed that Albania should be accepted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Council of Europe and should receive aid from the Group of 24 . |
| 6 | Churchill believed that Britain needed a minister of Cabinet rank to carry out properly the forthcoming negotiations . |
| 7 | Sarah believed that Tess and Rob were so devoted to George that they would be close to him , no matter where he was . |
| 8 | In contrast to Bourdieu , Baudrillard believed that people have become merely the vehicles for expressing the differences between objects . |
| 9 | Argan believed that art belonged to all men , which is why he battled in defence of the cultural heritage from the dark days of Fascism — to the last days of his life , proof of his commitment to criticism as an instrument of conscience . |
| 10 | Aristotle believed that matter was continuous , that is , one could divide a piece of matter into smaller and smaller bits without any limit : one never came up against a grain of matter that could not be divided further . |
| 11 | She was later to discover that a certain J. Olivier believed that Vincent Van Gogh 's self-mutilation in Arles was an aspect of some bull-ritual . |
| 12 | King believed that Kandyans regarded it as ‘ an act of daring , largely partaking the character of a dangerous field sport ’ . |
| 13 | Birbeck believed that Branson had played the joke as ‘ revenge ’ for a Music Week reporter feeding stories disparaging Branson to the satirical magazine Private Eye — and he was partly right . |
| 14 | Lenin believed that bureaucracy would become redundant after a proletarian revolution which would provide for the instant revocability of every civil servant , the reduction of official salaries and the simplification of control and accounting functions in society . |
| 15 | Stenton believed that Offa dominated Kent down to 776 but that the Mercians were defeated at Otford and Mercian authority not re-established in Kent until 785 when Offa again granted land in Kent in his own name ( CS 247 : S 123 ) . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , therefore , Sir Frank Stenton believed that Offa was able ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne . |
| 17 | None of the Khans believed that Artai was so incapable of controlling the violence of his temperament , Alexei thought , or they would not have elected him . |
| 18 | Dudley Ford had his suspicions and the police seemed to have been doing a pretty thorough job on him … but Doug Wilson believed that Shergold lacked the nerve and she was inclined to agree with him . |
| 19 | Bakker believed that dinosaur speed could , reasonably accurately enough , be worked out from the angle of the limb joints . |
| 20 | Yeats recalls receiving a letter from Lionel Johnson ‘ denouncing Wilde with great bitterness ’ ; Johnson believed that Wilde got a ‘ ‘ sense of triumph and power , at every dinner-table he dominated , from the knowledge that he was guilty of that sin which , more than any other possible to man , would turn all those people against him if they but knew'' ’ ( Yeats , Autobiographies , 285 ) . |
| 21 | The point is not new : Samuel Johnson believed that Shakespeare 's comedies reveal a profounder instinct than his tragedies : ‘ his tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct ’ . |
| 22 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 23 | The prose in this section starts to function like poetry , ordering images and rhythmical cadences to convey an intimation of the way that Rolle believed that things are . |
| 24 | Whereas Jones believed that Pons was pleased with the offer , Pons reportedly said ‘ We never needed Jones ’ spectrometer , never wanted it . |
| 25 | Aleksandr Nikitenko believed that Valuev had embarked on " an enormous plan … to destroy any tendencies in literature which he considers harmful " . |
| 26 | However , unlike Skinner , Piaget believed that development is best explained by describing the ways in which children understand such relations . |
| 27 | Mancini believed that Edward IV had designated his brother Gloucester as protector — a statement which he first introduces with a cautious ‘ as they say ’ , but which then becomes the cornerstone of his argument . |
| 28 | Mancini believed that Edward IV had designated his brother Gloucester as protector — a statement which he first introduces with a cautious ‘ as they say ’ , but which then becomes the cornerstone of his argument . |
| 29 | Carkesse believed that madmen vent their rage by words on air , poets by ink on paper . |
| 30 | Until they met yesterday in the quarter-finals of the £275,000 Silk Cut Championships , their first encounter since the semi-finals in Paris , the Soviet No.1 Andrei Chesnokov believed that Chang was more susceptible to power on carpet and cement . |