Example sentences of "believe [conj] [art] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 2 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 3 | The eighteenth century is often referred to as the Age of Reason ; most people believed that the world that Newton and Locke had made was the real world . |
| 4 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 5 | It is surprising to find that some practices , perhaps believing that the world will always grant them a living , manage their affairs without the elementary assistance of time recording . |
| 6 | Even if I also ca n't help believing that the world is bound to end soon . |
| 7 | These were intensified by the fact that he had been accused of believing that the world would continue to exist for eternity . |
| 8 | It is an intellectual leap of the same order as believing that the world is round . |
| 9 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 10 | If you want a nuclear-free world , do you believe that the world 's political leaders are crazy warmongers , or that humanity is out to destroy itself , or that the world is a dangerous and evil place ? |
| 11 | Thus , he argued , while we may well believe that the world is in fact designed by God , we can not prove it . |
| 12 | It is hard to believe that a World Championship event , which will inevitably lack the close communion of teams , could cap this one . |
| 13 | This gentle admonition did little to still the clamour of unilateralists in the churches ; yet there must surely be many Christians who have retained enough faith in divine Providence to believe that the world will not end unless God wills it and that , if He does , it will be for the best . |
| 14 | Sebastian appeared to believe that the world was a place full of sunshine and enjoyment . |
| 15 | I believe that the world seemed to Modigliani like an enormous kindergarten run by unkind adults . ’ |
| 16 | I have enjoyed the co-operation of Biblical Fundamentalists ( who do not accept the theory of evolution , but believe that the world was created exactly as described in Genesis I ) . |
| 17 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |
| 18 | We believe that the world is passing through a period of considerable instability and therefore we do not propose further reductions in our defence forces . |
| 19 | For example , if you believe in religion , you believe that the world and life has some kind of order and meaning . |
| 20 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 21 | In medieval times many people still believed that the world was flat and no one in Europe knew that America existed . |