Example sentences of "he believed that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He believed that Peter 's reforms had disrupted society by creating a Western-type bourgeoisie and separating the educated class from the common people .
2 He believed that Arnold Bros made the Store for nomes .
3 He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts .
4 He took good care of his men and he believed that soldiers should stay out of politics .
5 He believed that Asquith " is in a funk about the resistance of Ulster , and I am convinced that he will not face it when it comes to the point " .
6 He believed that public outrage about the prostitution trade could be far more usefully channelled into forming local vigilante groups , as residents in the St Jude 's Parish of King 's Cross had done .
7 UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on a visit to Turkey on April 21-22 said that he believed that Turkey should be included in the Matutes plan ( the EC 's development programme for the Mediterranean basin ) .
8 He was still not sure that he believed that story , but in her misery was prepared to go along with her .
9 He believed that Germanisation would bring the Poles security and a place in the world that they could not otherwise expect .
10 Brandt was determined to develop co-operation with eastern Europe in the hope of reducing tension in Europe and building up the independence of eastern states , and he believed that East Germany 's existence must be treated as a reality .
11 Bullying and overpowering , he believed that might was right and woe betide anyone who stood in his way .
12 He believed that liberty was best preserved by maintaining the balance implicit in the guiding legal principles of the constitution .
13 There were several reasons why he believed that Britain was where such an enterprise should be .
14 Becher ( 1978 ) denied that a general ideological consensus about educational ends is ‘ necessary in theory ’ ; in practice he believed that teachers can , and do , negotiate a working consensus , usually framed in terms of basic minima .
15 He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly .
16 And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence .
17 The original trigger for the stories was a note sent to clients by Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh , in which he said he believed that IBM plans to cut as many as 40,000 jobs this year , which would require yet another charge of about $1,000m to make up the provisions short-fall .
18 But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society .
19 He believed that women are to be adored for their naturalness , but because this makes them vulnerable and subject to extremes of temperament , they should also be under the control of their husbands .
20 He believed that Money Advice was here to stay , whatever happened to the economy .
21 But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ .
22 Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted .
23 He believed that work would go ahead , although it would be delayed and might take until 2004 to complete .
24 Like his fellow Republicans he believed that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy .
25 He believed that God was drawing his attention to this particular message from Scripture and that O'Neill was a harbinger of the troubles that lay ahead .
26 Like his fellow countryman , Spinoza , he believed that God was nature and nature was God .
27 He believed that socialism would not come about as the inevitable result of impersonal laws of economic development but would have to be built by active human beings working purposively and creatively .
28 At the time , however , he believed that Casey truly did not know what was going on .
29 He believed that Resenence Jeopardy had penetrated deeper into his soul than that .
30 Sometimes he believed that Eleanor was the love of his life .
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