Example sentences of "because he believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Marx this historical work was also political , because he believed that understanding the workers ' condition through the study of history would enable them the better to fight it . |
| 2 | Mr Major talked abundantly , often tediously , about tax , because he believed that in the sanctuary of the polling booth people would feel their fearful hearts pounding against their wallets . |
| 3 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 4 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 5 | Because he believed that she would make it up , he knew she would , damn him . |
| 6 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't believe you can go on like this and get away with it , ’ was his core phrase , prepared with care because he believed that it was in the King 's idiom . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He , the laibon , was not so sad because he believed that she had caused many upsets . |
| 12 | In the evenings they read together , keeping silent because he believed that silence was more real than chatter , and at half past nine they went to bed . |
| 13 | She would make the poet 's lunch , starting with the radio playing but switching it off after a time because he believed that people should be able to do without background noise . |
| 14 | He was reluctant , because he believed that he personally had ejected the Shah and that his standing was now so great that he could face down Khomeini alone . |
| 15 | In Willmott v. Atack the defendant intervened as the police were in the course of effecting an arrest because he believed that he would be able to persuade the person being arrested to cooperate . |
| 16 | He rejects the criteria favoured by Thompson not , of course , out of mere dogmatism , but rather because he believes that the self-consciousness of a class is not a crucial factor in explaining its birth and development . |
| 17 | Because he believes that the ‘ political instance ’ , which in capitalist societies can be identified as the state , is a function of its relations with the other instances of the structured whole , Poulantzas concludes that there can be no such theory . |
| 18 | Regarding differences as to the factual consequences of insider dealing , X may want to prohibit insider dealing because it harms Y ; or , because he believes that it is an inefficient means of allocating scarce resources . |
| 19 | The Profitboss gets to the top because he believes that he could be wrong and could do better . |
| 20 | Pooh only believes what Rabbit says because he believes that Rabbit believes it too . |
| 21 | Common sense suggests that a person who submits to an act only because he believes that otherwise he will be over-powered and have it done to him anyway does not consent in law , even though the force necessary to overpower him will be small and non-injurious . ’ |
| 22 | A car manufacturer does not design for failure because he believes that his cars will not fail . |
| 23 | Is it not because he believes that 2.5 million unemployed is ’ a price worth paying ’ ? |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 25 | And this makes sense to Freud , because he believes that people believe in , in religion because of the gratifications it gives them . |
| 26 | ‘ The President wants to go out , talk directly to the American people and explain to them how these things work together because he believes that they 're ready to hear the truth , ’ said the White House press secretary , Dee Dee Myers . |