Example sentences of "[pron] believed that [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my history was vague on the point , I believed that Victor was — in this development as elsewhere — some decades ahead of his time . |
| 2 | If someone believed that tables were better than chairs , we would think they were talking nonsense . |
| 3 | Fifteen years later , when everyone believed that computers were designed for advanced scientific work , business unexpectedly showed an interest in a machine that could do payroll . |
| 4 | Neither of them believed that mankind was equal , or could ever be so , or would ever seriously wish to be so . |
| 5 | Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " . |
| 6 | There had been trouble on Merseyside just once too often , and muddleheaded militants who believed that revolution was spawned in deprivation and poverty would be able to hold a little holiday in their hearts , secure in the knowledge that several more thousand British workers had been gulled into inflicting poverty and deprivation upon themselves . |
| 7 | I knew no one in their sane senses who believed that Profumo was a spy , and in fact that suggestion was never made . |
| 8 | The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success . |
| 9 | It was , therefore , in a sense government by amateurs ; and those like Socrates and Plato , who believed that government was a specialized skill like so many other forms of specialized work , naturally viewed the Athenian experiment with anger and contempt . |
| 10 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 11 | Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere to policies strictly consistent with this view . |
| 12 | In turn they adopted the habit from those Greek philosophers who believed that dialectic was a useful mental exercise . |
| 13 | A firm advocate of temperance , she believed that drink was the cause of much of the crime , vice , and misery of the poor . |
| 14 | She told me that she believed that evil was real , and not merely the absence of good , which , I felt , was a good start . |
| 15 | We believed that flowers were for the living , and Uncle used to often quote some lines of poetry : |
| 16 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 17 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 18 | Bullying and overpowering , he believed that might was right and woe betide anyone who stood in his way . |
| 19 | He believed that liberty was best preserved by maintaining the balance implicit in the guiding legal principles of the constitution . |
| 20 | There were several reasons why he believed that Britain was where such an enterprise should be . |
| 21 | He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly . |
| 22 | And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence . |
| 23 | He believed that women are to be adored for their naturalness , but because this makes them vulnerable and subject to extremes of temperament , they should also be under the control of their husbands . |
| 24 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |
| 25 | He believed that God was drawing his attention to this particular message from Scripture and that O'Neill was a harbinger of the troubles that lay ahead . |
| 26 | Like his fellow countryman , Spinoza , he believed that God was nature and nature was God . |
| 27 | Sometimes he believed that Eleanor was the love of his life . |
| 28 | He believed that reality was best approached through work or its cessation , whether in the shape of miners in the Borinage , labourers digging streets in The Hague , the poor waiting submissively in long lines in soup kitchens , or old men in broken top hats walking through the gates of almshouses . |
| 29 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 30 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |