Example sentences of "believe that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 2 | Several Red Cross officials believed that the Swiss government had foolishly offered to trade Hariri for Mr Winkler and had then reneged on its promise . |
| 3 | In the early stages of the Channel Tunnel project British Rail believed that the existing rail network in the South East could cope with any extra traffic after 1993 despite the fact that a report to Kent County Council in 1985 stated that ‘ the rail lines to London are already very heavily used and have little spare capacity ’ . |
| 4 | Such people believed that the principal purpose of government was not to protect gains already made , but to facilitate further growth in the economy . |
| 5 | The Daily Mirror conceded that the story was ‘ still corny , predictable and thin to the point of malnutrition ’ but believed that the lavish settings , its song-and-dance routines and the cast made up for this and added that Crawford ‘ brings a superb youthful energy to the role of the gawky , naive young clerk ’ . |
| 6 | Nicholas and Uvarov flattered themselves , however , if they believed that the western provinces were becoming less intractable than the Congress Kingdom . |
| 7 | The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But those watching the count late last night believed that the final tally would fall just below this figure . |
| 10 | Ornithologists gave the bird a Christian foundation and believed that the first mute swans were brought to Great Britain by the Crusaders from Cyprus in 1192 . |
| 11 | Public attention in the case grew , and many believed that the two men were unfairly tried ; the judge had shown a contempt for foreigners and their anarchist background had clearly counted against them . |
| 12 | He believed that the two operations could be run with the staff of about ten employed by Pittencrieff at its office in Abilene , Texas , after closing Aberdeen 's office in Denver , Colorado , which has between ten and 15 staff . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some observers believed that the new formation should not be viewed as a permanent body , but rather as a means for the republics to escape the central power exercised by the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Slessor believed that the new thinking met Britain 's interests in both the short and long term . |
| 16 | Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself . |
| 17 | That is , they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity . |
| 18 | Morgan believed that the only true descent groups were matrilineal , and that matrilineal descent groups — gens — were fundamentally different in organization from systems where descent was reckoned in the male line . |
| 19 | Blum , on the other hand , was looking to a more distant future when the French might have to withdraw entirely and in order to maintain the position of influence in the future he believed that the only firm foundation was a break with the past . |
| 20 | He believed that the only explanation for these results was the chimpanzees suddenly saw new relationships that were never learned in the past . |
| 21 | At the time , most observers believed that the real reason was that the BBC had been unable to persuade the newly-elected Conservative government to contribute towards the cost of setting up ( about £3million at 1977 prices ) or running a dedicated traffic service . |
| 22 | They believed that the real power base lay outside the centres in the social services central offices . |
| 23 | He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ . |
| 24 | Indeed , one school of thought believed that the female brain was biologically different from that of the male . |
| 25 | He believed that the greatest scientists should also be poets , for both recognized affinity , analogy and beauty ; and although to his biographer his mind seemed essentially Platonic , his greatest heroes were Aristotle , Linnaeus , Robert Brown and Goethe . |
| 26 | Analysts believed that the greatest fear in the region was that NAFTA " local content " and " country of origin " clauses would encourage the USA to increasingly look to low-wage Mexico as a principal source of imports . |
| 27 | It is natural that a mother should regard her child 's health as a matter of the highest importance ; but Judith Holt believed that the Almighty should also keep a watchful eye on a bank of which her husband had become a director . |
| 28 | Teesdale himself believed that the unhappy spirit wanted to confess . |
| 29 | SOME people believed that the Soviet Union had nothing in particular to celebrate , observed Mr Boris Prokhorov , of the official Soviet news agency Tass , yesterday . |
| 30 | Most observers believed that the Soviet Union 's reluctance to hold a Warsaw Treaty summit was connected with domestic anxieties about the instability of the Baltic states [ see pp. 37944-45 . |