Example sentences of "[pron] believed that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at that stage , when I entered into the agreement , I believed that a marriage to Janice could have worked . ’ |
| 2 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 3 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 4 | Let me say I believed that the wrongs of women were interconnected with and subsidiary to the wrongs of man ; that to work for the revolution was to work , indirectly , for women . |
| 5 | And I believed that the affair might have had something to do with her death . |
| 6 | They might find that until the sixteenth century everyone believed that the Sun went round the Earth . |
| 7 | In particular , the international projection of nationally-headquartered firms ' corporate identity is a vexed issue : Siegel & Gale 's new survey of 50 leading Hungarian companies , for example , found that if all of them believed that a company 's image was important to building sales , most would also rather do business with German 's sharply-etched Volkswagen that with fuzzy French concerns . |
| 8 | Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again . |
| 9 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 10 | There were still those among the Shah 's military who believed that a coup against Khomeini was possible . |
| 11 | These difficulties were the source of much of the conflict among philanthropists , between those who preferred to give thorough-going help to a few and those who believed that the scale of destitution was such that wholesale relief was necessary at least in times of high unemployment , to palliate serious destitution and to prevent social disorder . |
| 12 | Hostility to the talks had led to divisions within the military itself , between those who supported moves towards national reconciliation and those who believed that the URNG should be denied a political platform . |
| 13 | Someone who says there is not actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word beautiful had a vivid and important use . |
| 14 | Someone who says there is no actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word ‘ beautiful ’ had a vivid and important use . |
| 15 | In the eyes of those who believed that the Masai were decorative but unproductive idlers sitting on land that could be put to better use , the unco-operative attitude of district officials was mere romantic obstructionism , proof positive that they had been bewitched by the Masai . |
| 16 | The most distinguished among them was Alfred Einstein , editor of the third edition of the Kochel catalogue , who believed that the dots were simply strokes shrunken due to haste . |
| 17 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 18 | But critics who believed that the West was over-reacting were strengthened when Aneurin Bevan resigned from the British cabinet on 21 May accompanied by two other ministers . |
| 19 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 20 | Baker 's announcement was greeted with satisfaction by many Arab representatives who believed that the settlements issue was the major obstruction to progress on the peace process . |
| 21 | These were , first of all , those who believed that the purpose of legislation was to force people to be moral . |
| 22 | Unfortunately this play was overshadowed by the opening production and Crawford was the only leading actor not to merit a mention from Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , who believed that the key to performing this wittiest of farces was in the technique . |
| 23 | Dr Sasaki , who believed that the enemy had hit only the building he was in , got bandages and began to bind the wounds of those inside the hospital ; while outside , all over Hiroshima , maimed and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr Sasaki forget his own private nightmares for a long , long time … . |
| 24 | Parliamentarians who believed that the machinery they had established would end the barristers ’ monopoly are entitled to feel let down . |
| 25 | Figure 9.10 now tells a pretty clear story ; the proportion of people who believed that the economy had deteriorated in the previous year climbed from around 40 per cent at the beginning of 1984 to a peak of 67 per cent in February 1985 , but declined thereafter . |
| 26 | This was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod ( now the 95-year-old Very Reverend Lord MacLeod of Fuinary ) , a Church of Scotland minister who believed that the root of community life was shared work . |
| 27 | Even extremists of the 1960s , who believed that the task of a school was to ensure that children enjoyed themselves while they were pupils , must have had in mind , as well , some further outcome , some advantage that would flow in the long run to the children who had been encouraged , under that regime , to ‘ grow ’ and ‘ blossom ’ and ‘ flourish ’ in the ‘ learning situation ’ provided by the class-room . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This brought Britain into conflict with Islamic fundamentalists , who believed that the Dar al-Islam , the world where Islam ruled , should be peopled with slaves from Dar al-Harb , the lands of the infidel . |
| 30 | Eurotunnel 's advertising campaign has been highly successful in overcoming initial scepticism among those who believed that the project would meet the same fate as its predecessors . |