Example sentences of "[Wh pn] believe [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |
| 2 | As it happens , of course , this conclusion conforms to the observations of Freud , who believed that women had less sense of justice than men and are more often influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility . |
| 3 | Very few took the position of Ada Nield Chew , who saw clearly how the position of working wives was complicated by their reproductive function , and who believed that women 's sole responsibility for home and children represented the chief impediment to self-fulfilment . |
| 4 | This view accorded with the idealisation of married love in the work of Ruskin , Coventry Patmore and a range of writers on the domestic duties of wives and mothers , who believed that women 's fundamental task was to create a haven of peace , beauty and emotional security for their husbands and children . |
| 5 | At that time , a man who persuaded himself ‘ in the passion of a moment ’ that No meant Yes , or who believed that women who said ‘ No ’ never meant it , would have escaped liability even where recklessness was part of the mens rea of rape . |
| 6 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |
| 7 | Marx pours scorn on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophers , such as the utilitarians , who believed that ideas and values had no real significance but were a mere reflection of natural conditions . |
| 8 | Gomez 's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job . |
| 9 | I shall refer to those who believe that differences in attainment appear during adolescence as the A group , and those who argue that these differences are evident during ( or at least by the end of ) the primary years as the P group . |
| 10 | Because everyone realises that all research is flawed , not attaining a quota of bon mots might be construed as a sign of inexpertise or even worse , weakness , Then , too , there are those who believe that catcalls truly pass for constructive criticism . |
| 11 | Nowadays its appearance constitutes a convincing argument for those who believe that fiefs and vassalage were insignificant in aristocratic society before about the second quarter of the eleventh century . |
| 12 | There may well be those who believe that plants should be rigidly seasonal and I tend to agree but nature goes its own way and Galanthus nivalis subspecies reginae-olgae is a true end of year Snowdrop . |
| 13 | Theories of gender and education have , to some extent , mirrored those on class and education : there are those who believe that inequality is caused by the differential socialization of girls and boys ( in a sense , that girls are ‘ culturally deprived ’ ) and that this can be overcome through removing prejudice ; there are also those ( e.g. Spender 1982 ; Mahony 1985 ) who believe that schools both reflect and reproduce patriarchal relations . |
| 14 | ‘ Lukewarm toleration ’ is the description given by some New Zealand correspondents who believe that clergy sometimes feel that ‘ traditions are inhibiting parish development ’ . |
| 15 | However this stance is often misunderstood by others who believe that Christians only ‘ do good work ’ to ensure a place for themselves in heaven . |
| 16 | He recognizes that there is a real divergence of expert opinion between those who believe that men are happy because they are miserable , and those who believe that men are miserable because they are happy ; and wisely arrives at a synthesis of both views . |
| 17 | He recognizes that there is a real divergence of expert opinion between those who believe that men are happy because they are miserable , and those who believe that men are miserable because they are happy ; and wisely arrives at a synthesis of both views . |
| 18 | The move was steered successfully by P&O Roadtanks Managing Director , Bryan Haworth , who believes that customers are more confident being served by a company with a strong identity . |
| 19 | With these unrealistic expectations I 'm not sure who stands to lose the most — my daughter believing that you need a man , wealth and preferably a title to be happy , or my son who believes that women are beautiful and passive or wicked and powerful but , either way , he 'd better be handsome . |
| 20 | The , the opposition here is between the Lamarckians who are wrong , and think you can inherit er , an acquired callous from your ancestors , and the Darwinian who is right , who believes that callouses are related to natural selection . |