Example sentences of "[n mass] believe that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders . |
| 2 | 73% believe that increased unemployment has contributed to violent crime . |
| 3 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 4 | Many people believed that such low molecular weight products were all one could hope for from ethylene . |
| 5 | Often these people believed that each of the components of nature — the forest , the rivers , the sky — was occupied and guarded by a jealous god , and they behaved as if that were the case . |
| 6 | Many people believe that voluntary bodies as they are today can not be entrusted with this national responsibility . |
| 7 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 8 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 9 | All this encouraged many Burmese to believe that British interests were behind the assassinations . |