Example sentences of "[pron] believed that [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed . |
| 2 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 3 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
| 4 | They were the main enemies of the predominant sect , the Pharisees , who believed that salvation would only come if they adhered strictly to the Mosaic law , as originally set out in Deuteronomy where it was made clear that the chosen people must be a ‘ clean ’ people . |
| 5 | His evidence to the parliamentary select committee revealed that he was not one of those who believed that straw could ever be an adequate substitute for rags . |
| 6 | Even so , the number of those who believed that Hitler would have been one of the greatest German statesmen of all time had it not been for the war remained relatively high , though this figure too had fallen sharply ( from 48 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent by 1967 ) . |
| 7 | Unlike Napoleon III , who believed that diplomacy could , if skilfully handled , bring results without war — and this in spite of his failures to make this work in 1854 and 1859 — Bismarck held with Frederick the Great that : ‘ Diplomacy without war is like music without instruments . ’ |
| 8 | When they spoke in the debate just before the war , Neil Kinnock and Gerald Kaufman said that a vote for the adjournment would not be a vote for war , that we believed that sanctions should be given longer . |
| 9 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 10 | They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments . |
| 11 | They believed that inflation would go up and that interest rates would go up , which would clearly lead to higher unemployment in Yorkshire and Humberside . |
| 12 | of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent . |
| 13 | He took good care of his men and he believed that soldiers should stay out of politics . |
| 14 | UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on a visit to Turkey on April 21-22 said that he believed that Turkey should be included in the Matutes plan ( the EC 's development programme for the Mediterranean basin ) . |
| 15 | He believed that Germanisation would bring the Poles security and a place in the world that they could not otherwise expect . |
| 16 | Becher ( 1978 ) denied that a general ideological consensus about educational ends is ‘ necessary in theory ’ ; in practice he believed that teachers can , and do , negotiate a working consensus , usually framed in terms of basic minima . |
| 17 | But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society . |
| 18 | He believed that work would go ahead , although it would be delayed and might take until 2004 to complete . |
| 19 | Like his fellow Republicans he believed that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy . |
| 20 | He believed that socialism would not come about as the inevitable result of impersonal laws of economic development but would have to be built by active human beings working purposively and creatively . |
| 21 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the case for pardoning Derek Bentley was supported by his trial jury , which recommended mercy in 1952 ; by the Lord Chief Justice of the day ; by the trial judge , who said subsequently that he believed that Bentley would not hang ; a subsequent Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham ; by many members of another place ; by many right hon. and hon. Members of this House — nearly one third of whom signed a recent early-day motion ; and by millions of our fellow citizens . |
| 22 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 23 | Robin Cook , Labour 's spokesman on health , said he believed that commitment may turn out to be ‘ too modest ’ by the time of the next general election . |
| 24 | Despite the cold , he believed that people would be prepared to watch football at night . |
| 25 | She would make the poet 's lunch , starting with the radio playing but switching it off after a time because he believed that people should be able to do without background noise . |
| 26 | He believed that people should spend as little as possible on themselves and think as little as possible about themselves — no more , indeed , than the little thought that was needed to keep them usefully alive . |