Example sentences of "believed the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PROFOUND shift away from the Tory Party among women voters was taking place , but many women still believed the Labour Party was too male-dominated , Clare Short warned the conference yesterday . |
| 2 | A scintilla of Bahamian pride was preserved by the presence of a native officer on every American boat or helicopter , but no one really believed the polite fiction that the local officer was thus in command . |
| 3 | Police initially believed the two women had drowned . |
| 4 | Still suffused with a sense of equality to the challenge that confronted him , he slipped deftly into the image he believed the other man would have of him . |
| 5 | SAVE and many others ( including the prince of Wales who compared the proposed building to ‘ a glass stump better suited to downtown Chicago ’ ) believed the new scheme would be simply disastrous . |
| 6 | It was also in a serious financial position but believed the new Regulations would lead to a general amelioration of the deficit position through the ability to earn increased Board of Education grants for its Chapter III work . |
| 7 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 8 | Among Tory supporters 48pc believed the Prime Minister can not remain a credible leader while 45pc thought he could . |
| 9 | A 2pc cut in base rates coinciding with the Chancellor 's Autumn Statement next week has been widely anticipated and Mr Bootle said he believed the downward trend would continue through to next year and stabilise at 5pc . |
| 10 | British officials believed the indefinite prolongation of the occupation to be dangerous , particularly because of the restlessness provoked thereby in Japan . |
| 11 | MacArthur believed the Soviet Union and China would gain from a peace settlement , since the alternative was that the occupation would continue and Japan would more obviously become an American satellite . |
| 12 | This time Marko believed the mysterious child ; he went to the king and asked for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy , and for oxen to drag them up the mountain and men to dam up the lake . |
| 13 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 14 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 15 | They believed the existing system worked to the enrichment of only a small number ; national benefit could be derived from legitimate commerce with a fertile Africa only if the slave trade did not create misleadingly attractive alternatives . |
| 16 | In 1549 the citizens of Exeter believed the rebellious peasants to be intent on pillage ; Norwich merchants concealed their valuables and fled . |
| 17 | Whatever the reality on Capitol Hill , Ceauşescu undoubtedly believed the pro-Israeli gestures would win Romania influence in Washington and would perhaps lead them to accept his differentiation of Romanian foreign policy from the Kremlin 's at face-value . |
| 18 | In an article in Corriere della Sera , an Italian newspaper , Mr Monti praised Mr Fazio 's personal qualities , but pointed out that in 1984 Mr Fazio believed the central bank would be wrong to resist government pressure to finance its deficit . |
| 19 | In the same way that , in 1941 , he had been convinced that Hitler was in his debt for services rendered in the struggle against communism , Franco now believed the western powers owed it to him to recognize that he had been right all along . |
| 20 | Women believed the first phase of feminism was all that was necessary , but it was n't . |
| 21 | Leopold believed the entire Weber family to be good-for-nothing . |
| 22 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 23 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 24 | Dulles believed the Russian leaders wanted détente for selfish reasons , to help install themselves in power after Stalin 's death , or to sow division in the West . |
| 25 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 26 | Like their peers elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , the Communist rulers of Romania were shrewd enough to know that not even village idiots believed the official media . |
| 27 | Freud believed the ancient theory that dreams are symbolic was true . |
| 28 | In March its believed the same man threatened staff with a knife at the Bristol and West Building Society in Cheltenham . |
| 29 | Baxter believed the Antinomian controversy went to the very roots of the Christian faith and this was one of the main reasons he accepted the offer of an army chaplaincy in order to counter this error . |
| 30 | Mr Major said he believed the constitutional issue ‘ transcended ’ the election . |