Example sentences of "he believe [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 2 | He believed that hundreds of the " veiled women " demonstrating in the streets of Teheran in favour of an Islam Republic were actually militant Communists dressed up . |
| 3 | He believed that religious ideas had an independent historical influence , and that the realm of politics was usually the crucial controlling force in social change . |
| 4 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 5 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 6 | He believed that such an event would lead to a loss of belief in the will of the USA to maintain her commitments throughout the area . |
| 7 | He believed that many legitimate visitors would be forced to park on the main road because the council had closed the track . |
| 8 | He believed that many of these slips revealed some kind of sexual subconscious which suddenly ‘ accidentally ’ is brought to the conscious . |
| 9 | He believed that Soviet leaders in retrospect probably recognised that a genuinely non-aligned Afghanistan pursuing non-radical policies was a better guardian of Soviet security interests . |
| 10 | He believed that all home-produced cheese would rise in price and that the number of varieties would shrink . |
| 11 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 12 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 13 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 14 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 15 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 16 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 17 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 18 | Forgetful of the silence which prevailed over his own most troubling experiences , he believed that direct and gentle questioning might embolden even the least articulate sufferer to speak all the grief and rage of the heart , and so dispel it . |
| 19 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 20 | He believed that abrupt changes on the earth 's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area . |
| 21 | He believed that this was referred to by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth century . |
| 22 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 23 | He believed that this would reveal that the evolution of society followed ‘ invariable laws ’ . |
| 24 | He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained , permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource . |
| 25 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 26 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 27 | He believed that clinical descriptions of neuroses do not take into account the inner experiences of the patient which may be valid and even illuminating . |
| 28 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 29 | Does he believe that that is possible in Northern Ireland , when some sections of the security services are colluding with terrorists , when they are using terrorists as agents while they are involved in terrorist activity and when some members of the security services are handing out confidential security documents as though they were pen-pal photographs ? |
| 30 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |