Example sentences of "believe [conj] [adj] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that this was referred to by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth century . |
| 2 | For all those reasons I am satisfied that although the justices plainly were very concerned and believed that this was the right course to take , I do not think they were justified in refusing the local authority 's application for an interim care order . |
| 3 | He genuinely believed that this was the least the belligerents could do in return for the " sacrifices " made by Spain during the Civil War . |
| 4 | The woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years , and probably suffered from haemophilia , touched the cloak of Jesus believing that this was all she had to do to be healed . |
| 5 | It is the only one where someone touched Jesus believing that this was all they had to do to be healed . |
| 6 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 7 | Bertha Cohen wished she could believe that that was the explanation , but in her heart she knew it was n't . |
| 8 | Their passion precluded tenderness , their lovemaking nearly fighting , and Maria could almost believe that that was really what it was , else how could Luke continue to deny her and himself like this ? |
| 9 | I do not think that anyone would believe that that was either necessary or sensible . |
| 10 | Because when this guy put his head down , I just did not believe that that was |
| 11 | She had watched scenes like this so of ten in detective films and police series on television that she could hardly believe that this was real life . |
| 12 | As her weight loss was so gradual she could n't believe that this was the cause so she attributed the benefit to the diet itself . |
| 13 | I could n't quite believe that this was the same Steffi that I had read about in Tennis World and that she was actually there . |
| 14 | I could not believe that this was the intention of Parliament . |
| 15 | After Terry had gone upstairs we heard the dreadful shriek of tape being torn and so , when Mahmoud came down and asked which was Terry 's pee-bottle , we really could n't believe that this was anything more than another move . |
| 16 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 17 | I could hardly believe that this was to be the end of the public life of a man so comparatively young , and with so much still to give … |
| 18 | Blake could n't believe that this was one creature . |
| 19 | If Steen had been murdered ( and he had no cause to believe that that was the case ) , then it was something to do with the Sweets and the blackmailing business . |
| 20 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 21 | As I looked down at him lying there it was difficult to believe that this was Shimi Lovat . |
| 22 | It would be a mistake , however , even when the intimacy between Lewis and Tolkien was at its strongest , to believe that this was the only thing in both their lives . |
| 23 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 24 | There is no reason to believe that this was not true also of the world 's earliest volcanoes . |
| 25 | While I have no reason to believe that this was the case in respect of Wilson , or indeed any senior member of the Labour Party , I can understand why such a person would be reluctant to try to abort the inquiry . |
| 26 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 27 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 28 | There is no particular reason to believe that this was caused merely by the newer properties being of higher value . |
| 29 | I believe that that was the only occasion , in both public and private , that I saw Eliot not to his best advantage . |
| 30 | We believe that this was valid because the mortality rate of patients with inflammatory bowel disease did not differ from that expected in the background |