Example sentences of "who believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been trouble on Merseyside just once too often , and muddleheaded militants who believed that revolution was spawned in deprivation and poverty would be able to hold a little holiday in their hearts , secure in the knowledge that several more thousand British workers had been gulled into inflicting poverty and deprivation upon themselves . |
| 2 | This was the position argued some years ago by practitioners of la nouvelle critique , who believed that clarity in argument was a form of ideological mystification , reinforcing the status quo . |
| 3 | The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success . |
| 4 | It was , therefore , in a sense government by amateurs ; and those like Socrates and Plato , who believed that government was a specialized skill like so many other forms of specialized work , naturally viewed the Athenian experiment with anger and contempt . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 6 | Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere to policies strictly consistent with this view . |
| 7 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
| 8 | They were the main enemies of the predominant sect , the Pharisees , who believed that salvation would only come if they adhered strictly to the Mosaic law , as originally set out in Deuteronomy where it was made clear that the chosen people must be a ‘ clean ’ people . |
| 9 | His evidence to the parliamentary select committee revealed that he was not one of those who believed that straw could ever be an adequate substitute for rags . |
| 10 | In turn they adopted the habit from those Greek philosophers who believed that dialectic was a useful mental exercise . |
| 11 | There was a political culture of stability ‘ thriving on the creation of symbolic dragons — the English , the Tories , the Church of England , Twickenham ’ ( Griffiths , 1987 , p. 215 ) , a lack of a corporate revolution and an inherent conservatism reflected by one councillor who believed that borrowing money to finance capital expenditure was tantamount to creative accounting . |
| 12 | Unlike Napoleon III , who believed that diplomacy could , if skilfully handled , bring results without war — and this in spite of his failures to make this work in 1854 and 1859 — Bismarck held with Frederick the Great that : ‘ Diplomacy without war is like music without instruments . ’ |
| 13 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 14 | People who believe that history and the destinies of men are controlled by the stars are not likely to entertain the idea of historical progress . |
| 15 | Theories of gender and education have , to some extent , mirrored those on class and education : there are those who believe that inequality is caused by the differential socialization of girls and boys ( in a sense , that girls are ‘ culturally deprived ’ ) and that this can be overcome through removing prejudice ; there are also those ( e.g. Spender 1982 ; Mahony 1985 ) who believe that schools both reflect and reproduce patriarchal relations . |
| 16 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 17 | The Orion is designed for those people who believe that luggage belongs in the boot . |
| 18 | The task force is still divided between those who believe that price controls are the best way to control costs ( Mrs Clinton , supported by Donna Shalala , the secretary of health , and Judith Feder , a senior adviser ) and those who put their faith in competition ( principally Ira Magaziner ) . |
| 19 | The six are the first in the West to try techniques pioneered by Russian doctors who believe that sonar contact by dolphins helps to calm women . |
| 20 | The awareness that there is not a discussion about what communications is , and that perhaps there should be , is rather different from the viewpoint of some English lecturers , who believe that English is established as a practice and therefore has no need of a debate about its development as a discipline . |
| 21 | There are those , including Germany 's 1990 World Cup coach , Franz Beckenbauer , who believe that world champions should be made to qualify for the following World Cup , rather than receive an automatic place . |
| 22 | Mr. Lawson applies that description to people like me , who believe that tobacco advertising and sponsorship of sport are immoral and have precisely the effect that they are intended to have , which is to recruit young people into smoking . |
| 23 | Those of us who believe that causality is central to the philosophy of data analysis prefer measures of effect , which force us to be explicit about causal order , to symmetric measures of association . |
| 24 | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and PR Sprays have teamed up to produce a new booklet targeted at people approaching retirement and who believe that retirement means a life as a couch potato in front of the telly . |
| 25 | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and PR Sprays have teamed up to produce a new booklet targeted at people approaching retirement and who believe that retirement means a life as a couch potato in front of the telly . |
| 26 | This Gotteschalk , a precursor of Luther , even to renouncing his Vows , might be thought in his intransigent predestinarian vision to figure some of the later Evangelicals of our day , and Neighbour Pliable perhaps a satire upon those like myself , who believe that Christianity does not consist in the idolatrous presence of the Deity in a piece of bread , nor yet in the five points of metaphysic faith . |
| 27 | As one who believes that life exists from the moment of conception and is in the image of Christ , I support the petition and am opposed to anything that damages life in the way in which this pill is alleged to do . |
| 28 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 29 | The woman who believes that pregnancy is a physiological process and not a pathological one may decide that neither of her doctors is correct . |
| 30 | Someone who believes that abortion is murder will think that the checkerboard abortion statute produces more injustice than outright prohibition and less than outright license ; someone who believes women have a right to abortion reverses these judgments . |