Example sentences of "believed [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 53-year-old woman believed for 10 years that King George V was in love with her . |
| 2 | Others have become Christians at a particular moment in their lives but have believed for good reasons which have had mixed in with them other less solid motives for believing , so that their faith was never based on a strong , established conviction . |
| 3 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 4 | The salient fact is that Wigg believed , and believed with great intensity , that Profumo had lied to him and for that reason was a suitable object for punishment in fanning the flame of the sexual scandal . |
| 5 | ‘ Counties have sponsorship deals now for pre-season trips , although at Essex we have never believed in pre-season tours because April is the only time you can get your first and second XI captains together . ’ |
| 6 | Martin Luther King , now the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC 1957 ) , believed in non-violent methods and consciously followed the teachings of the Indian leader , Mahatma Gandhi . |
| 7 | What one would have believed in certain circumstances is equally immaterial to what one should now believe . |
| 8 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 9 | The Manichaeans , described also as Bogomils , Cathars and Patarenes , believed in equal forces of good and evil . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've always believed in living life to the full . ’ |
| 11 | Truthfully , I had n't believed in Heavenly Father since my fourth Christmas Eve night , the night when Auntie trod on my brick-truck as she tried to sneak in with my present — a smart Apollo Candy with stabilisers , hand-painted maroon — Pa being out with the Recovery . |
| 12 | For example , it is widely believed in English-speaking cultures that women are good listeners . |
| 13 | Intellectuals of the age believed in parliamentary government , not a democratic system ; in liberty , not popular government ; and the spectre of social and economic equality itself was seen as the dark side of the claim for adult suffrage . |
| 14 | Although empirical research ( for example , Boaden , 1971 ) suggests ‘ that the financial relationship has [ not ] decreased the decision-making autonomy of individual authorities , it is generally believed in local government that it has led to increased , and increasing control over local government as a whole ’ ( Alexander 1982a , p. 148 ) . |
| 15 | The malais believed in quick rotations for Danu . |
| 16 | Jane realised then that she had never really believed in covered wagons , other than as a vehicle for John Wayne . |
| 17 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 18 | Stewart and Tait began with the idea that the great majority of mankind had always believed in some fashion in life after death . |
| 19 | If nothing else , she enjoyed feeling needed ; but sometimes she dreamed with disturbing vividness about the managing director , who had believed in full-length mirrors , bottles of champagne and the importance of taking one 's time . |
| 20 | Few people believed at that time that a bill would be obtained to make a line down Corvedale . |
| 21 | Astonishing to relate , it was still widely believed at this time that a single session would suffice , and indeed the Council actually started under this illusion . |
| 22 | It is thus believed by Catholic conservatives to be not by chance that the incarnation took place in a male human person . |
| 23 | Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’ |
| 24 | The conclusions of the Athens conference of 130 art historians , archaeologists , conservators and scientists will be a part of the display ( see The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p.14 ) , as will casts of two life-size ancient kouroi believed by most scholars to be closest in style to the Getty example : the Tenea Kouros from Munich and the Anavysos Kouros from Athens . |
| 25 | Enzo Calvitti , believed by Italian police to be one of the leading members of the extreme left-wing Red Brigades ( Brigate Rosse — BR ) responsible for terrorist attacks in the 1970s and early 1980s , was arrested in Paris on Oct. 12 , 1989 . |
| 26 | Assertions from pupils about what teachers call them may not always be believed by sceptical readers . |
| 27 | Something like it still seems to be believed by some economists close to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 28 | The idea , nevertheless , is an interesting one , given that Novell Inc is believed by some quarters to be determined to end the division of the Unix world into rival camps . |
| 29 | They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China . |