Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said teachers in the humanities believed that pupils were obtaining grades they could not possibly achieve in exams . |
| 2 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 3 | The Jews believed that God controlled everything : the forces of nature , Israel as his chosen people and also the destiny of all other nations . |
| 4 | The Jews believe that God promised Israel to them because they are Abraham 's heirs . |
| 5 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 6 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 7 | The Armenians believed that Ararat was the centre of the world ; but the mountain was divided between three great empires , and the Armenians ended up with none of it , so I sha n't continue this comparison . |
| 8 | The investigators believe that PROLOG achieves this exceptionally well , because of its flexible datastructuring ; a control flow which needs very little attention from the programmer ; and its simplicity and uniformity . |
| 9 | The rebels believe that Mr Major 's credibility is in tatters after a series of defeats and retreats as the Maastricht Bill lumbers through Parliament . |
| 10 | The empiricists believe that language should be learnable by experience , without any prior knowledge . |
| 11 | For , since the Egyptians believed that Osiris had actually lived in their land long ago , his cult signified that a particular historical event , in this case the death and resurrection of Osiris , could be perpetually repeated by magical simulation so that its supposed good effects could benefit those persons on whose behalf the rites were performed . |
| 12 | The Americans believed that priority should be given to the restructuring of the European economies in the long term whereas the British were preoccupied with what they argued was a short-term dollar crisis . |
| 13 | On the American side the multilateralists believed that protectionism in the United States might be weakened if they could win a demonstrable success against Imperial Preference . |
| 14 | The doctors believe that ruling should now be changed . |
| 15 | Since , in 1849 , the British had encouraged Constantinople to reject Russian requests for the surrender of the Polish and Hungarian refugees who had fled to Ottoman territory after the failure of the Hungarian revolution , the Turks believed that Britain , as well as France , had their interests at heart . |