Example sentences of "believed [adj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aycliffe factory makes nightwear , for men and women , and the union believed this sector would be safe during the economic slump as other luxury items would suffer more as the pockets of the consumer got tighter . |
| 2 | We believed this conference would benefit from the IFI 's explanation of the criteria by which those projects were chosen and those amounts allocated . |
| 3 | THOSE who fondly believed British tennis could get no worse have again been proved wrong . |
| 4 | Blackadder , a Scot , believed British writings should stay in Britain and be studied by the British . |
| 5 | Miss Glover , in one of her few interventions , said warmly that she believed such things could and did happen . |
| 6 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 7 | English country folk once believed these beasts would hover over a house as a warning to the inmates to mend their ways . |
| 8 | Charles III 's minister , Floridablanca , believed good government would solve the colonial problem ; this was a profound misconception , inherited by Spanish liberalism , for it was not mal gobierno that the creoles rejected but government by peninsulares ( peninsular Spaniards ) as such . |
| 9 | Spokesman Simon Boxer said : ‘ It was dreamed up 20 years ago when scientists believed nuclear power would save the world and feared we would soon run out of uranium . |
| 10 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 11 | She believed cheap clothes could be made elegant by paring them down to essentials . |