Example sentences of "they believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 2 | They believed that packing atoms together inside crystalline solids could produce so much pressure that the atoms would be squeezed together and hence fusion would occur in a test-tube . |
| 3 | They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments . |
| 4 | They believed that inflation would go up and that interest rates would go up , which would clearly lead to higher unemployment in Yorkshire and Humberside . |
| 5 | Mocking supporters of legalisation writing in ‘ sophisticated newspapers ’ , the minister said perhaps they believed that suppliers , unmolested by the police , would , ‘ as an act of Christian charity ’ reduce their prices so their customers did not have to steal and prostitute themselves . |
| 6 | But City sources said they believed that Mr Lawson might reinforce the fight against inflation without resorting to another increase in base rates , by announcing a further tightening of monetary policy in next Thursday 's Mansion House speech . |
| 7 | They believed that Yugoslavia 's backwardness was the fault of capitalism and that a period of socialism would put it right . |
| 8 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 9 | Perhaps not surprisingly given this , they believed that crime against them was racially motivated . |
| 10 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 11 | of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent . |
| 12 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 13 | They believe that Jesus died so that sins might be forgiven , and therefore that this story is an illustration of this truth . |
| 14 | Oh they believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God , alright . |
| 15 | Attitudes are changing , partly because managers can see that without their involvement computer systems are unlikely to succeed , and because they believe that computer systems should be able to help them in their decision-making . |
| 16 | Although the book 's authors concede that ‘ bluffing , exaggeration and obfuscation are all part of the game ’ , they believe that honesty , friendliness and fairness may be more than their own reward . |
| 17 | Conversations with Afro-Caribbean pupils suggest that , like the Afro-Caribbean pupils at school A , they believe that teachers held low academic expectations of their performance . |
| 18 | Indeed , they believe that instability in the past has been caused , rather than smoothed out , by governments ' futile attempts at demand-management policies . |
| 19 | Like most of the professionals , they believe that sport and politics should not be mixed and that they are victims of a situation over which they have no control . |
| 20 | They believe that women are well aware of the power of their sexual attractiveness as well as their power of refusal , but it 's something that they accept cheerfully enough . |
| 21 | They believe that women are more interested in stamina and ambition , and rate themselves as ambitious but not fun-loving . |
| 22 | ‘ In other words , James , they believe that Creator-man is with us now , inside every human skull . |
| 23 | They believe that death has been conquered and that it is not the end of life . |
| 24 | On discharge procedures and the trusts having to take care — in exactly the same way as health authorities now have to take care — of those for whom they believe that care is appropriate , the same rules should apply . |
| 25 | That is to say they believe that God was in some sense differently related to particular events , or may be said in particular to have revealed God 's self through those events , in a way in which this is not true of all other events or periods in history . |
| 26 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 27 | They believe that SSE should include mutual lesson observation ; that SSE should be conducted in a fraternal , egalitarian and self-critical spirit . |
| 28 | They believe that revenue will reach £820m a year in 2003 and £997m in 2013 — respectively 6.7 per cent and 8 per cent higher than forecast last year . |
| 29 | In other words they believe that sexism in this instance is built on some ‘ natural ’ foundation . |
| 30 | When America does lift its trade embargo , they believe that Vietnam will receive help from the IMF and massive Japanese investment . |