Example sentences of "they believe that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better .
2 All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world .
3 Many of them believed that Eldorado 's launch in July was six months too early .
4 Neither of them believed that mankind was equal , or could ever be so , or would ever seriously wish to be so .
5 Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason .
6 And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad .
7 They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work , which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness .
8 They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness .
9 They believed that packing atoms together inside crystalline solids could produce so much pressure that the atoms would be squeezed together and hence fusion would occur in a test-tube .
10 They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments .
11 They believed that inflation would go up and that interest rates would go up , which would clearly lead to higher unemployment in Yorkshire and Humberside .
12 Mocking supporters of legalisation writing in ‘ sophisticated newspapers ’ , the minister said perhaps they believed that suppliers , unmolested by the police , would , ‘ as an act of Christian charity ’ reduce their prices so their customers did not have to steal and prostitute themselves .
13 But City sources said they believed that Mr Lawson might reinforce the fight against inflation without resorting to another increase in base rates , by announcing a further tightening of monetary policy in next Thursday 's Mansion House speech .
14 They believed that Yugoslavia 's backwardness was the fault of capitalism and that a period of socialism would put it right .
15 They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond .
16 Perhaps not surprisingly given this , they believed that crime against them was racially motivated .
17 They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order .
18 of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent .
19 There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse .
20 They believe that Jesus died so that sins might be forgiven , and therefore that this story is an illustration of this truth .
21 Oh they believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God , alright .
22 Attitudes are changing , partly because managers can see that without their involvement computer systems are unlikely to succeed , and because they believe that computer systems should be able to help them in their decision-making .
23 Although the book 's authors concede that ‘ bluffing , exaggeration and obfuscation are all part of the game ’ , they believe that honesty , friendliness and fairness may be more than their own reward .
24 Conversations with Afro-Caribbean pupils suggest that , like the Afro-Caribbean pupils at school A , they believe that teachers held low academic expectations of their performance .
25 Indeed , they believe that instability in the past has been caused , rather than smoothed out , by governments ' futile attempts at demand-management policies .
26 Like most of the professionals , they believe that sport and politics should not be mixed and that they are victims of a situation over which they have no control .
27 They believe that women are well aware of the power of their sexual attractiveness as well as their power of refusal , but it 's something that they accept cheerfully enough .
28 They believe that women are more interested in stamina and ambition , and rate themselves as ambitious but not fun-loving .
29 ‘ In other words , James , they believe that Creator-man is with us now , inside every human skull .
30 They believe that death has been conquered and that it is not the end of life .
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