Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most educated men were predisposed to believe that white-skinned , richly clothed Europeans like themselves must belong to a species altogether different from that of the dark-skinned , naked savages described by the traveller-ethnographers , there was the awkward fact that the book of Genesis declares that the whole of mankind is descended from Noah . |
| 2 | Several key portfolios in the national working committee ( NWC ) , the ANC 's " shadow cabinet " , were taken by a younger generation of ANC leaders , who were thought to believe that Mandela had assumed too much personal power since his release from prison . |
| 3 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 4 | The sometimes insensitive and arbitrary methods employed in carrying out the regrading exercise has aroused scorn , derision and even despair from those who were led to believe that substantial pay increases were to be honoured at last . |
| 5 | Mostly teenagers , they were led to believe that if they worked hard they would become clerks or even dealers . |
| 6 | And then she heard the low whistle — once , twice , and a third time ; and while she lay frozen by terror into indecision , a yet more dreadful possibility occurred : what if Tristram were caught , and were led to believe that she had betrayed him ? |
| 7 | But I mean , were led to believe that some of the people that you see sitting on the streets of Edinburgh begging are actually making a good living out of it ! |
| 8 | Ballyskeagh 's nights which were done after we were led to believe that Wednesday was Dungannon 's best night of the week . |
| 9 | Well we were led to believe that the concessions given to company cars would go , or would go in part in the White Paper , and we were led to believe that they would er make a decision that would say that the gas-guzzling , the higher expenditure cars would be penalized in terms of vehicle excise licence , road tax , compared to the small ones , and yet they 've gone back even from that . |
| 10 | Well we were led to believe that the concessions given to company cars would go , or would go in part in the White Paper , and we were led to believe that they would er make a decision that would say that the gas-guzzling , the higher expenditure cars would be penalized in terms of vehicle excise licence , road tax , compared to the small ones , and yet they 've gone back even from that . |
| 11 | The significance of this strikingly worded note is that it was written in full knowledge of the methods already being used by " local commanders " to " persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia " — ie the " deception " whereby they were allowed to believe that they were being taken to Italy . |
| 12 | They were encouraged to believe that external agents would tackle the problem of a territorial settlement . |
| 13 | John Gunn of British & Commonwealth , John Ashcroft of Coloroll and , to some extent , the Saatchi brothers are among those who were tempted to believe that expansion was synonymous with diversification . |
| 14 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 15 | As a specialist on the Soviet Union , Gates was known to believe that the expectations of economic reform in the Soviet Union had far exceeded the ability of the leadership to achieve them . |
| 16 | As originally disclosed by the Guardian , the estimated value of the tax concessions alone offered at one point during the negotiations was close to £35 million , while the European Commission was led to believe that BAe would benefit by only £25 million from the easing of tax restrictions . |
| 17 | He was led to believe that he would receive better than a university education with Mr. Wickstead as his personal tutor . |
| 18 | It was in 1988 that the college was led to believe that the three picture would fetch £15–20 million , but while the college 's financial situation has improved since then , the state of the art market has done the exact opposite . |
| 19 | I was led to believe that Rocky had moved to Derby . |
| 20 | Then the other argument as I can see is that they 've led me to believe , I don I know you said that it 's automatic twelve month ban , but we just accepted that because I was led to believe that my job was safe . |
| 21 | I was led to believe that your programme was noted for its in-depth research of the facts . |