Example sentences of "he believed that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was still not sure that he believed that story , but in her misery was prepared to go along with her . |
| 3 | He believed that Germanisation would bring the Poles security and a place in the world that they could not otherwise expect . |
| 4 | Bullying and overpowering , he believed that might was right and woe betide anyone who stood in his way . |
| 5 | He believed that liberty was best preserved by maintaining the balance implicit in the guiding legal principles of the constitution . |
| 6 | He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly . |
| 7 | And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence . |
| 8 | But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society . |
| 9 | He believed that Money Advice was here to stay , whatever happened to the economy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He believed that work would go ahead , although it would be delayed and might take until 2004 to complete . |
| 12 | Like his fellow Republicans he believed that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He believed that reality was best approached through work or its cessation , whether in the shape of miners in the Borinage , labourers digging streets in The Hague , the poor waiting submissively in long lines in soup kitchens , or old men in broken top hats walking through the gates of almshouses . |
| 15 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 16 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 17 | Robin Cook , Labour 's spokesman on health , said he believed that commitment may turn out to be ‘ too modest ’ by the time of the next general election . |
| 18 | In the evenings they read together , keeping silent because he believed that silence was more real than chatter , and at half past nine they went to bed . |
| 19 | He believed that machinery and urban life had ruined modern life , and advocated what he termed the ‘ voluntary segregation of the fit ’ to live and breed in a utopian community of farmers and skilled craftsmen . |
| 20 | He believed that membership of the exchange rate mechanism would give greater certainty to business and industry , help the battle against inflation , and secure lower rates of interest . |
| 21 | This led him towards ideas of conservation of energy , and of a unified field ; he believed that light and magnetism must act upon one another , and to the astonishment of contemporaries he indeed demonstrated that a magnetic field will rotate the plane of polarization of polarized light . |