Example sentences of "believe [adj] thing " in BNC.
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1 | The days of loyally believing false things about Gustave are over . |
2 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
3 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
4 | When taxed about her ‘ bossy ’ or ‘ headmistressy ’ role in the 1983 election she replied : ‘ Yes , I do believe certain things very strongly . |
5 | Tacitus regarded Christianity as one more contemptible superstition , to the pessimist additional evidence of the sad capacity of human beings to believe strange things . |
6 | The latest argument is about the beast where three of the main characters each believe different things about he beast . |