Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] believed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of foreign firms believed that Britain 's industrial relations improved significantly in the 1980s . |
| 2 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 3 | The early testers believed that tests would open doors to disadvantaged people , not close them . |
| 4 | But if these commentators believed that schools were failing to hone their pupils ' political critical faculties to a sufficient sharpness , by the 1980s , as we have seen , right-wing commentators were expressing the contrary view . |
| 5 | Many contemporaries believed that Richard was unwilling to wait until the two Kings had completed their long-drawn-out preparations . |
| 6 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 7 | Moreover , many officials believed that chenas caused soil erosion and that the grains produced on them were unhealthy . |
| 8 | Scopes had broken the law and so lost his case , but many Americans believed that Darrow had won a moral victory . |
| 9 | All peasants believed that Odin fled to Møn after the coming of Christianity had made him homeless . |
| 10 | Many analysts believed that Cedras and his colleagues had only taken charge in order to prevent themselves from being swept away by events , and some senior commanders had reportedly refused to join Cedras in the ruling junta . |
| 11 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 12 | Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling . |
| 13 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 14 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 15 | Third parties believed that Unkiar-Skelessi marked a further stage in Russia 's southward advance . |
| 16 | Most observers believed that south Korea would eventually be unified by north Korea with the support or at the instigation of the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Despite these problems , and the fact that the particles in the supergravity theories did not seem to match the observed particles , most scientists believed that supergravity was probably the right answer to the problem of the unification of physics . |
| 18 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |