Example sentences of "some believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some believed his claim that the invasion of Kuwait was the first step towards the liberation of Palestine , and/or a blow in favour of the Arab poor ( of which the Maghreb has its share ) . |
| 2 | Some believed this was entirely possible , but continued to support the family by writing letters denouncing the procedures carried out by Orkney Islands Council . |
| 3 | While some believed her husband was dead , Sunnie — real name Dilys but nicknamed Sunnie because of her happy nature — refused to give up hope . |
| 4 | She wanted to forget , had forgotten already , would go on forgetting , that she was the other one — the other one who , as some believed , was presently whiling away her days in a nunnery … |
| 5 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
| 6 | A French authorship was also proposed while some believed the inscription with the sitter 's name to be a later addition . |
| 7 | Dealers felt they could be choosy , passing several highly touted lots , including a Louis XIV Boulle marquetry writing table ( which some believed to have been extensively altered ) , unsold at $325,000 ( est. $400–600,000 ) and a set of four Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry cabinets ( est. $400–600,000 ) which failed at $250,000 . |
| 8 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 9 | Some believed that the politics of class would bring little advantage to themselves . |
| 10 | And once their physical usefulness was at an end , the Robemaker tore out the souls of his slaves and carried them to the Soul Eaters in the Cruachan Cavern , which some believed were the Gates of Hell . |
| 11 | Some believed indeed that the original intention of Soviet Mediterranean deployments had been to induce a negotiated withdrawal of the United States ' Sixth Fleet . |
| 12 | The fact that some believed that their teaching programme would not differ greatly even if such examinations were abolished seems to suggest that the GCSE syllabuses may be moving in the right direction , and present fewer conflicts with the way arts teachers normally operate . |
| 13 | Some believed the fabu-lously wealthy Moores family was jinxed . |
| 14 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 15 | In what some believed to be a dummy run of tomorrow 's final , Jackie Lockhart 's team beat Christine Cannon 's Stranraer 8-7 in the third round . |
| 16 | The remnants were not from a Second World War Spitfire , as some believed , but from a Hawker Hunter jet which crashed on a routine flight 33 years ago . |
| 17 | Which is another way of saying that what he did , or is said to have done , at Highbury on Tuesday night , takes some believing . |
| 18 | As I 've already said , it takes some believing that your agents could have unearthed anything worth killing for . |
| 19 | It takes some believing , looking at the half-finished West Stand with its incomplete entrance steps and the sea of mud and rubble that surrounds the pitch , which at least , to Powell 's credit , looks immaculate . |
| 20 | Because of a loophole in the legislation — which some believe will be closed soon — £4,800 can be invested in this trust , double the usual maximum . |
| 21 | Some believe he is still alive ; he would be 77 . |
| 22 | At 666p , Rothmans is trading below asset value , which some believe is more than 750p a share . |
| 23 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 24 | There was the son of a Dallas police officer who held a press conference last autumn to ‘ confess ’ that his dead father was the ‘ second gunman ’ some believe fired at the president from a grassy knoll . |
| 25 | As indicated above , at one extreme , some believe that its emergence was entirely due to the internecine conflict of the Liberal Party during the First World War , occasioned by David Lloyd George 's replacement of Asquith as Prime Minister in 1916 . |
| 26 | If , as some believe , women living in community tend to synchronize cycles , this would mean that a group of women would retire together . |
| 27 | Most observers see the index touching bottom before 15,000 but some believe it could go as low as 10,000 . |
| 28 | This was not , as some believe , originally owned by Sir Thomas More , but a later manor belonging to Henry VIII , where the young Princess Elizabeth lived for a while . |
| 29 | This first happened early in the Ordovician ( some believe even earlier ) , and there were no doubt simple polyps in the Cambrian and Precambrian from which the corals evolved . |
| 30 | Some believe that it is undesirable and that the diver should transfer under pressure . |