Example sentences of "they believed 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They believed that Yugoslavia 's backwardness was the fault of capitalism and that a period of socialism would put it right . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perhaps not surprisingly given this , they believed that crime against them was racially motivated . |
| 15 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 16 | 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 . |