Example sentences of "who believe in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex Cunningham , it had transpired , was a toper of the old school , who believed in polishing off a bottle where lesser men would merely finish a glass . |
| 2 | Instead they have voted for a man who promised change , who believed in change and who recognised that change had to come . |
| 3 | Poor Italian immigrants , who believed in anarchist ideas , they both protested their innocence at their trial . |
| 4 | Argan was a great writer and a coherent ideologue of art , an historicist who believed in progress and in the functionalism of art right up to its transmutation into design . |
| 5 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 6 | THE FIRST WEEK has Fairy Hill the story of the Reverend Robert Kirk of Aberfoyle who believed in fairies . |
| 7 | Martinho encouraged him in this opinion-he liked to make out that the organisation had been moderate until hijacked by extremists who believed in violence . |
| 8 | Ernest Newton , like his name , was a modest and serious architect who believed in moderation . |
| 9 | Many are portrayed as strong personalities : the Swansea shopkeeping grandmother , a ‘ wonderful old lady ’ who would tell historical stories of the Rebecca Riots ; the cultured , much-travelled Scots widow , a ‘ remarkable woman ’ who ran her late husband 's estate ; the toothless , pipe-smoking , ‘ mediumistic ’ Lancashire granny who believed in ghosts and practised second sight ; or the Scot ploughman 's wife who taught her grandson the Bible and catechism ‘ patiently , affectionately , and prayerfully … and at night she would put me to bed , wrap me snug and warm , and kindly teach me short prayers , psalms , and hymns . ’ |
| 10 | We could not , as we said , challenge a man who believed in Cortés 's divinity , or who , in some manner or form ‘ experienced ’ Cortés within him . |
| 11 | His attitude to labour changed from that of an early nineteenth-century Tory paternalist , advocating model villages provided by employers and condemning trade unions , to that of a post-Disraelian Conservative who believed in self-help and free collective bargaining . |
| 12 | He was a self-confessed old-fashioned Liberal , who believed in people being nicer to each other , and he had a warm and generous manner to which they responded . |
| 13 | The European Community 's future is best served by those who believe in Europe and in putting forward strongly the position of their countrymen , farmers and those who have interests in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | PEOPLE who believe in Sunday trading do n't realise that those who live near shops have to contend with crowds and parked cars seven days a week . |
| 15 | Perhaps those who know the truth will be too lazy or too diffident or too poor to publish while whose who believe in error will be so rich , or well organized , or self-confident that they will control the presses and the television studios and dominate the ‘ free market in ideas ’ . |
| 16 | Just in so far as we cause the Government to persecute those who believe in peace , so we may be doing the greatest service … to stimulate the national consciousness in [ the ] direction [ of peace ] . ’ |
| 17 | This is not , of course , the only or the first or the commonest use of the word ; we have borrowed it from people who believe in gods . |
| 18 | Readers who believe in reincarnation will probably not find all this such tough going . |
| 19 | ‘ We are democrats who believe in pluralism , in a modern state and human rights . ’ |
| 20 | However , only those who believe in God are allowed to be the King 's officials . |
| 21 | ‘ You should read the Bible and do what Christ says — people who believe in God should love their enemies , ’ said Helen . |
| 22 | Nice orderly home-and-family-loving people are the ones who believe in God and even still go to church . |
| 23 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 24 | Those who believe in delegation say that the elected representative is presumably a responsible person and a committee of responsible persons should be entrusted with responsibility . |
| 25 | For feminists who believe in coalition with other progressive groups and in the power of eloquence to change men 's attitudes , then educational systems , like other institutions , can become the site of struggle in which concerted action might bring about changes in personnel and policies . |
| 26 | It will also be widely welcomed by all who believe in self-determination for these proud people , who have suffered Chinese oppression for nearly 40 years . |
| 27 | When those who believe in war refuse to do their duty , that is , when they refuse to fight for some reason or other , Gandhi feels it to be his moral duty to enlighten them as to their responsibilities as soldiers , while at the same time presenting them with the alternative path of ahi sā . |
| 28 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 29 | In my pastoral ministry I have met so many people , some of them convinced Evangelicals , who believe in justification by faith with their heads , yet are condemned by their hearts . |
| 30 | And it struck me that it 's those who believe in cock-ups who are ready to believe anything . |