Example sentences of "believe [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years I believed Pathos was one of the Three Musketeers , Fellatio was a character in Hamlet , Vitreous a town in China , and that the Irish peasants had to tread the peat to make Guinness . |
| 2 | John Burbedge believed money was the key to the problem . |
| 3 | Clift insisted he did n't have a drinking problem and Brando left believing Clift was ‘ a lost cause ’ . |
| 4 | When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one . |
| 5 | I believed Courtney was a hero who liked and respected women |
| 6 | He believed jungles were somewhere you went for revelation . |
| 7 | He was a realpolitiker , believing nation-states were the prime actors in world affairs and that they operated by the logic of the balance of power . |
| 8 | The Americans were petrified of Communism , and believed Communists were aiming for world domination , via the ‘ domino effect ’ of one country after another falling to it . |
| 9 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 10 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 11 | I love him to bits but I 'm long past the stage of believing marriage is what makes a relationship real and holds it together . |
| 12 | But she believed Simon was my boyfriend . ’ |
| 13 | Moon , who is bidding to join his Llanelli team-mate Tony Copsey as Wales ' second English export , believed honours were even in the show-down of the two number nines . |
| 14 | Former Greater Manchester deputy chief constable John Stalker said he believed Warrington was chosen as a target because it was the scene of an attack a few weeks ago which resulted in arrests . |
| 15 | He believed help was possible from Jesus . |
| 16 | Carrie flashed a glance in his direction and Seb blushed , believing Tom was capable of reading the same meaning into the look as he did . |
| 17 | It , too , believed recovery was in sight a year ago and bid up shares aggressively . |
| 18 | The early Church used miracles to teach who they believed Jesus was : the Messiah . |
| 19 | The early Church believed Jesus was the ‘ Son of Man ’ ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 20 | But now the kind old man had moved abroad , still believing Oliver was a lying thief , and he might hold this belief until the day he died . |
| 21 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'd had so little education , but he loved books and believed learning was the key to living . |
| 23 | He was amongst those who believed Partition was not historically destined . |
| 24 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 25 | The early Church believed miracles were proof of who Jesus was . |
| 26 | Iran gave the impression that it believed Iraq was planning to replace them with single-buoy moorings ( SBMs ) , a subject on which rumour had been rife since 1980 . |
| 27 | Police believed Elstob was under the influence of drink or drugs . |
| 28 | Intel Corp shares were bouncing last week on excitement generated by a suggestion from Alex Brown & Sons analyst Erik Jansen that he believed Intel was negotiating to use an IBM Corp chip plant in order to boost production of 80486 and Pentium computers . |
| 29 | Intel Corp shares were bouncing late Tuesday , closing up $4.375 at $101.375 on excitement generated by a suggestion from Alex Brown & Sons analyst Erik Jansen that he believed Intel was negotiating to use an IBM Corp chip plant in order to boost production of 80486 and Pentium computer . |
| 30 | Morton said the Princess 's astrologer , Penny Thornton of TODAY , revealed to him recently that she believed Diana was about to leave the Royal Family then . |