Example sentences of "[pron] believed that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 2 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 3 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 4 | It is a conclusion that need not worry supporters of inequality but which should cause concern to those who believed that social services could and would create a more equal society . |
| 5 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 6 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 7 | 2 ) With a larger number of employees we believed that accurate routine manpower information in a number of key areas — such as labour turnover , recruitment , and pay and benefit levels — becomes a still more important issue . |
| 8 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 9 | They believed that mental illness was substantially underfunded in their region . |
| 10 | This trend was welcomed by articulate working class women 's groups such as the Women 's Cooperative Guild , because of poor working class housing conditions and because they believed that working class wives needed a respite from the cares of managing a household . |
| 11 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 12 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |
| 13 | Their Lordships also upheld the trial judge 's refusal to allow the defendants to put any evidence before the jury about why they believed that nuclear weapons , rather than their own actions , were ‘ prejudicial to the safety … of the State ’ . |
| 14 | This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary . |
| 15 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 16 | He believed that religious ideas had an independent historical influence , and that the realm of politics was usually the crucial controlling force in social change . |
| 17 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 18 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 19 | He believed that Soviet leaders in retrospect probably recognised that a genuinely non-aligned Afghanistan pursuing non-radical policies was a better guardian of Soviet security interests . |
| 20 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 21 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 22 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 23 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 24 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 25 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 26 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 27 | He believed that abrupt changes on the earth 's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area . |
| 28 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 29 | He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained , permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource . |
| 30 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |