Example sentences of "he believe [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image .
2 Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) .
3 He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning .
4 An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 .
5 Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ?
6 If there are two elections this year — which all the pollsters are naturally hoping for — he believes political polls may account for up to 15 p.c. , with market research accounting for the rest .
7 But a senior social worker says he believes young offenders who are sent to court for first offences are far more likely to commit new crimes .
8 He believes young drivers should take every chance to learn more about safe driving
9 He believes such innovations as ‘ distance working ’ , which will enable people to operate from home ‘ instead of having to converge on places in order to work ’ , will offer all kinds of promise for improving some of the less agreeable aspects of a business career .
10 By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle .
11 He believes some firms could then reject the town as an unemployment blackspot .
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