Example sentences of "[noun] believed that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local housing association believed that the conversion of an existing building into an attractive block of flats would assist the process of regenerating the city centre , provided a sound building could be obtained cheaply . |
| 2 | The State Department believed that the US must either take on Britain 's role as protector of Near Eastern states from Russia , or witness a major advance for Communism . |
| 3 | Plotinus believed that the origin of time was to be found in the life of the world-soul . |
| 4 | Philosophers like Plato and Plotinus believed that the longing for this knowledge is innate in the human soul which had itself emanated , albeit to the furthest possible extent , from the source of all being to which it longs to return . |
| 5 | Later critics of the President believed that the resolution would have run into much more opposition if all the facts had been known . |
| 6 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 7 | Hegel believed that a substance was exhausted by the sum of its predicates , which is another way of saying that he identified the categories of the German language with those of abstract thought , and those of abstract thought , in turn with those of Mind or Geist . |
| 8 | Victorin Hameni Bieleu , a leading member of the opposition , said that many parties believed that the RDPC would take complete control of the Assembly as a result and predicted a boycott of the elections " if things continue like this " . |
| 9 | But his enemies believed that the sickness was just another of his delaying tactics and so they renewed the war as soon as the truce expired . |
| 10 | If undue influence in the full sense is not made out but the element of pressure , surprise , misrepresentation or some or one of them combine with or cause a misunderstanding or failure to understand the documents or transaction , the final question must be whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed that the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper or unfair dealing with his wife . |
| 11 | A majority believed that the ILP should remain within the Labour Party until forced to withdraw . |
| 12 | Ellis believed that the women 's movement had taken a wrong turn in demanding equality with men in the public sphere and should rather have worked for the elevation of motherhood . |
| 13 | Contemporaries believed that the riots which occurred at elections were frequently caused by " hired gangs " employed by one of the parties to prevent their opponents ' supporters from coming to the poll . |
| 14 | Beatrice Webb believed that the retention of a voluntary element in the social services would render them inefficient at exercising the ‘ element of compulsion and disciplinary supervision ’ over the clients which she thought essential for their improvement . |
| 15 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |
| 16 | The ancient Mediterranean cultures believed that the dolphin represented the vital power of the sea . |
| 17 | Several physiotherapists mentioned that the active nature of the job benefited them physically and a number of people with sensory impairments believed that the nature of the work prevented them from becoming isolated . |
| 18 | Ward believed that the Water and Health Authorities had misunderstood the chemistry of aluminium . |
| 19 | Djilas believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat had produced a bureaucracy in the form of ‘ a privileged caste which lives at the expense of society as a whole ’ . |
| 20 | In these ways Mill believed that the interests of the governors and the governed could be brought into accord . |
| 21 | And although the committee believed that the problem had been overstated , this did little to allay the anxieties . |
| 22 | Alexander believed that the way our head and neck are held affects the hold body . |
| 23 | Paragraph 21 exposes a gap , pointing out that an innocent acquisition followed by a dishonest decision to keep or dispose of the property was in general not larceny and that larceny by finding was committed only where at the time of the finding the finder believed that the owner could be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 24 | Many vice-chancellors believed that the universities were being run down ‘ in order to build up the state system of higher education of colleges and polytechnics , headed by the Council for National Academic Awards ’ . |
| 25 | Higgs believed that the services of a working man 's wife were more valuable economically when they were employed at home than in the labour market . |
| 26 | Following Marx 's analysis of the Paris Commune of 1871 , Lenin believed that the people could , after a proletarian revolution , fulfil the functions once performed by ‘ privileged officialdom ’ . |
| 27 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 28 | Mathew believed that the war was responsible for an upward trend in homosexual behaviour and , together with Herbert Morrison , a policeman 's son , Labour right-winger and Home Secretary in the Attlee Government , sought to put an end to it . |
| 29 | Calvinists believed that every person was predestined by God to go to heaven or to hell . |
| 30 | Clarkson believed that a narrative of abolition produced not only ‘ the most pleasing and grateful sensations ’ but that lessons relevant to future success emerged . |