Example sentences of "believe that their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen believed that their acquaintance would ripen into a warm friendship , equalling her affection for Jane Aldis , but did not believe that she and Edward could ever fall in love , so convinced was she of her own ‘ ordinariness ’ . |
| 2 | It would seem that the originators of atonality believed that their music was really completely non-tonal , but by now it can be seen that atonality is really an obscuring of tonalities in varying degrees . |
| 3 | Speculation about whether the Assassin troops believed that their experiences in the Alamut gardens fitted out as Paradise were really a dream , or whether the gardens ' compliant slaves were all too real in the flesh is thus academic . |
| 4 | The fact that some believed that their teaching programme would not differ greatly even if such examinations were abolished seems to suggest that the GCSE syllabuses may be moving in the right direction , and present fewer conflicts with the way arts teachers normally operate . |
| 5 | The next great archbishop after Anselm was Thomas Becket , The monks of his day , like those of Anselm 's , believed that their archbishop had not tried hard enough to defend their rights . |
| 6 | The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added . |
| 7 | Journalists believed that their message could reach even the lower orders . |
| 8 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 9 | The decision was not well received by those Americans who believed that their allies should concentrate on the provision of conventional forces . |
| 10 | Some sections of the press were apprehensive about the ‘ un-Englishness ’ of an armed police , but within a year 821 police constables had received instruction in the use of firearms — although some of their senior officers believed that their men were ‘ nervous and excitable ’ , ‘ men of excitable temperament ’ who were ‘ not to be trusted to use revolvers with discretion ’ . |
| 11 | Initially , many believed that their retention would only be temporary ; they failed to understand , however , that Elizabeth herself saw the 1559 settlement as final , and that she intended to resist all pressure from her councillors , divines , and MPs to purify or reform these ceremonials . |
| 12 | Exposure to hostile action by host governments might be substantially increased if the host governments believed that their nationals could run the plants . |
| 13 | Most village cattle were undernourished and unhealthy , and many contemporaries believed that their condition was getting worse . |
| 14 | In turn , this creates even more secret cabals which go off on their own and carry out unauthorised operations , firmly believing that their plan is the only way to make progress . |
| 15 | Back Up the Hearse and Let Them Sniff the Flowers is based on his own time as a water-filter salesman , ringing on doorbells and brow-beating mug-punters into believing that their lives wo n't be complete without the little gizmo on offer ( at £230 plus VAT ) . |
| 16 | Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’ |
| 17 | Fifth , the Thatcher Governments have made major changes to owner-occupation and share ownership and this has resulted in many small wealth holders believing that their interests are now more closely allied with the rich , to the exclusion of people on low incomes . |
| 18 | The person avoided the situation at point A , believing that their anxiety was going to keep on going up along the dotted line . |
| 19 | Perhaps as a consequence of this , few seemed to find having to submit a report a threatening prospect , only a fifth of teachers believing that their school had felt threatened in any way . |
| 20 | Lugard , in his Political Memoranda , employed the words of Henry Lawrence to impress upon his officers the importance of constant travel among the people , and like him selected his administrators from among the military , believing that their training had taught them , as no other could , the proper exercise of responsibility . |
| 21 | It also includes those who prefer to remain unemployed , believing that their incomes from social security benefits do not make it worthwhile to take up a job . |
| 22 | The issue which divided public opinion largely revolved around the ineffectiveness of the prison system and the ease with which convicts could bamboozle prison chaplains into believing that their characters had been reformed , thus securing their release on ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ , and there was little room fur the idea that the roots of crime might be found in social conditions . |
| 23 | ‘ There was some resistance in the early days , ’ says Mr Bristow , ‘ with booksellers believing that their jobs would be eroded . |
| 24 | To take another example , there are many biologists who , despite the acknowledged successes of molecular biology , do not believe that their subject is just a complex corollary to physics . |
| 25 | Although I do not begin to claim the sort of historical breadth of either Brown or Bynum , I do believe that their approach is not only helpful but necessary if we are going , as we must , to use the lives of women before us to encourage us forward . |
| 26 | Therefore they may believe that their back pain , for example , is physical rather than addictive in origin . |
| 27 | Some people do seriously believe that their records sound better if the labels are smeared with ‘ neutralising cream ’ and stored with the sleeve notes pointing in a particular direction to align the printing inks . |
| 28 | Britons complain about it all the time : nominal interest rates at 15–20% , depending on the borrower , make most managers believe that their capital costs more than anybody 's . |
| 29 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 30 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |