Example sentences of "he believed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 2 | He believed that hundreds of the " veiled women " demonstrating in the streets of Teheran in favour of an Islam Republic were actually militant Communists dressed up . |
| 3 | He believed that religious ideas had an independent historical influence , and that the realm of politics was usually the crucial controlling force in social change . |
| 4 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 5 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 6 | He believed that such an event would lead to a loss of belief in the will of the USA to maintain her commitments throughout the area . |
| 7 | He believed that many legitimate visitors would be forced to park on the main road because the council had closed the track . |
| 8 | He believed that many of these slips revealed some kind of sexual subconscious which suddenly ‘ accidentally ’ is brought to the conscious . |
| 9 | He believed that Soviet leaders in retrospect probably recognised that a genuinely non-aligned Afghanistan pursuing non-radical policies was a better guardian of Soviet security interests . |
| 10 | He believed that all home-produced cheese would rise in price and that the number of varieties would shrink . |
| 11 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 12 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 13 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 14 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 15 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 16 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 17 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 18 | Forgetful of the silence which prevailed over his own most troubling experiences , he believed that direct and gentle questioning might embolden even the least articulate sufferer to speak all the grief and rage of the heart , and so dispel it . |
| 19 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 20 | He believed that abrupt changes on the earth 's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area . |
| 21 | He believed that this was referred to by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth century . |
| 22 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 23 | He believed that this would reveal that the evolution of society followed ‘ invariable laws ’ . |
| 24 | He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained , permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource . |
| 25 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 26 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 27 | He believed that clinical descriptions of neuroses do not take into account the inner experiences of the patient which may be valid and even illuminating . |