Example sentences of "[pron] believed the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next day she was elected by a handsome majority , and I believed the Scottish Home Rule movement to be on its way . |
| 2 | In March its believed the same man threatened staff with a knife at the Bristol and West Building Society in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | The pace certainly quickened — too much so for some fathers who believed the conservative minority was trying to hurry them towards a close , leaving some business unfinished . |
| 4 | If , until that moment , Cassie had laboured under the misconception that Bella was an ill-educated , ill-bred and mercenary little tart and that Johnny had married beneath him , as she believed the proper expression to be , then the sound of Bella 's voice dispelled any such comforting illusion . |
| 5 | They believed the existing system worked to the enrichment of only a small number ; national benefit could be derived from legitimate commerce with a fertile Africa only if the slave trade did not create misleadingly attractive alternatives . |
| 6 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 7 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 8 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 9 | A 2pc cut in base rates coinciding with the Chancellor 's Autumn Statement next week has been widely anticipated and Mr Bootle said he believed the downward trend would continue through to next year and stabilise at 5pc . |
| 10 | Still suffused with a sense of equality to the challenge that confronted him , he slipped deftly into the image he believed the other man would have of him . |
| 11 | Lieutenant Colonel Bob Stewart , Cheshires ' Commanding Officer , said in a statement read at the inquest that he believed the fatal shot may have been fired by either a Moslem or Croat gunman acting on his own initiative . |
| 12 | He spoke without conviction , as if he believed the last phrase was something he was obliged to say rather than genuinely believed . |
| 13 | Mr Major said he believed the constitutional issue ‘ transcended ’ the election . |
| 14 | The former Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham , said he believed the scientific community to be a responsible one . |