Example sentences of "who believe that [art] " in BNC.

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1 But these were a tiny minority of the West European population and European governments did not take kindly to idealists who believed that a European parliament and an American-style single market could be created swiftly on a continent whose linguistic , cultural and socio-economic differences had been ingrained over centuries .
2 The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed .
3 There were still those among the Shah 's military who believed that a coup against Khomeini was possible .
4 Mr Bruton said those who believed that a British withdrawal , or a declaration in favour of a British withdrawal , would help solve the problem must answer these questions :
5 In the course of receiving treatment for a heart condition , Hinrich Medau became deeply interested in the work of Dr Ludwig Schmitt , who believed that a healthy state is more likely to be maintained where there is lively blood circulation and breathing to full capacity .
6 In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement .
7 Dr Sasaki , who believed that the enemy had hit only the building he was in , got bandages and began to bind the wounds of those inside the hospital ; while outside , all over Hiroshima , maimed and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr Sasaki forget his own private nightmares for a long , long time … .
8 Even extremists of the 1960s , who believed that the task of a school was to ensure that children enjoyed themselves while they were pupils , must have had in mind , as well , some further outcome , some advantage that would flow in the long run to the children who had been encouraged , under that regime , to ‘ grow ’ and ‘ blossom ’ and ‘ flourish ’ in the ‘ learning situation ’ provided by the class-room .
9 Figure 9.10 now tells a pretty clear story ; the proportion of people who believed that the economy had deteriorated in the previous year climbed from around 40 per cent at the beginning of 1984 to a peak of 67 per cent in February 1985 , but declined thereafter .
10 The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter .
11 Eurotunnel 's advertising campaign has been highly successful in overcoming initial scepticism among those who believed that the project would meet the same fate as its predecessors .
12 In the eyes of those who believed that the Masai were decorative but unproductive idlers sitting on land that could be put to better use , the unco-operative attitude of district officials was mere romantic obstructionism , proof positive that they had been bewitched by the Masai .
13 The ‘ Heshang ’ controversy was one important debate which provided intellectual substance for those who believed that the contemporary situation could not continue indefinitely with all its dilemmas and difficulties .
14 Ralph was the only person she knew who believed that the special offers in magazines actually were special .
15 There were indeed many influential soldiers and civilians who believed that the victorious New Model Army should now seek to export its religious revolution , and who in their more ecstatic moods talked of marching on Rome and of setting Cromwell 's chaplain , Hugh Peter , upon the throne of St Peter .
16 This was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod ( now the 95-year-old Very Reverend Lord MacLeod of Fuinary ) , a Church of Scotland minister who believed that the root of community life was shared work .
17 These difficulties were the source of much of the conflict among philanthropists , between those who preferred to give thorough-going help to a few and those who believed that the scale of destitution was such that wholesale relief was necessary at least in times of high unemployment , to palliate serious destitution and to prevent social disorder .
18 These were , first of all , those who believed that the purpose of legislation was to force people to be moral .
19 There were those who believed that the new Chancellor lacked the drive and ability to head the government , which would be a far greater challenge than his experience governing West Berlin .
20 If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns .
21 Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years .
22 Parliamentarians who believed that the machinery they had established would end the barristers ’ monopoly are entitled to feel let down .
23 Hostility to the talks had led to divisions within the military itself , between those who supported moves towards national reconciliation and those who believed that the URNG should be denied a political platform .
24 Baker 's announcement was greeted with satisfaction by many Arab representatives who believed that the settlements issue was the major obstruction to progress on the peace process .
25 Unfortunately this play was overshadowed by the opening production and Crawford was the only leading actor not to merit a mention from Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , who believed that the key to performing this wittiest of farces was in the technique .
26 This brought Britain into conflict with Islamic fundamentalists , who believed that the Dar al-Islam , the world where Islam ruled , should be peopled with slaves from Dar al-Harb , the lands of the infidel .
27 Here there was an additional complication in that Euric and his people were arian Christians , who believed that the Holy Trinity was a hierarchy , in which the Father , Son and Holy Ghost were not equal , while the majority of the Gallo-Romans , including Sidonius , were catholics , and insisted on the equality of the three persons in the Godhead .
28 But critics who believed that the West was over-reacting were strengthened when Aneurin Bevan resigned from the British cabinet on 21 May accompanied by two other ministers .
29 The most distinguished among them was Alfred Einstein , editor of the third edition of the Kochel catalogue , who believed that the dots were simply strokes shrunken due to haste .
30 Someone who says there is not actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word beautiful had a vivid and important use .
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