Example sentences of "he believed [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Ford spokesman said he believed industrial action was a long way off . |
| 2 | Ford personnel director John Hougham said he believed industrial action was still a long way off . |
| 3 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 4 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | He believed that rationality , as distinct from rationalism , required fidelity to the knowledge we have acquired of how to conduct specific activities . |
| 7 | It was also important for him because he believed that matriliny , the reckoning of group membership in terms of who one 's mother was , was associated with a high status for women . |
| 8 | He believed that evolution worked by orthogenesis , in which rigidly predetermined trends drove variation in a particular direction whatever the needs of the organism . |
| 9 | He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning . |
| 10 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 11 | He told the Guardian that he believed senior management took deliberate steps to hush up the dangers . |
| 12 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 13 | He believed some movement in the case would be made by the end of this month . |
| 14 | 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 . |