Example sentences of "believe in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Jennens believed in Leapor 's talent is suggested by one oddly poignant stanza : |
| 2 | She imagined tiny villages far to the north of England which had no electricity or telegraphs , which believed in lake monsters and King Arthur , and were not so different from northern towns near Canada . |
| 3 | Whatever else you might say about him , he believed in things and he did what he thought was proper , so it was only right that he 'd been spared and was still out there in the world , somewhere . |
| 4 | But why did n't you tell me before that you believed in women 's lib ? |
| 5 | A Jekyll and Hyde journalist , who ‘ never drank tea or coffee — he believed in water , ‘ God 's ale ’ as he called it , he was a natural vegetarian , he did n't believe in killing anything . ’ |
| 6 | from the Conservatives saying that they believed in nursery education . |
| 7 | He believed in style ; more than anyone . |
| 8 | Guillaume believed in Modigliani 's gift and felt convinced that the price of his work would appreciate , but only if the painter was allowed to develop in peace . |
| 9 | Regarded as heretics by orthodox Muslims , they believed in reincarnation and the transmigration of the soul . |
| 10 | Whereas for most Greeks and Romans , whether they believed in cycles or not , the dominant aspects of time were the present and the past , Christianity directed man 's attention to the future . |
| 11 | He believed in England — well Episcopalian is your Church of England and I think his grandfather was an immigrant back around the end of the century . |
| 12 | ‘ Now when I say he believed in England I do n't mean your thatched cottages and warm beer he did n't think the place was cute , not just his grandfather 's birthplace . |
| 13 | It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer . |
| 14 | Argan was a great writer and a coherent ideologue of art , an historicist who believed in progress and in the functionalism of art right up to its transmutation into design . |
| 15 | They believed in progress , in a certain amount of representative government , a certain amount of civil rights and liberties , so long as these were compatible with the rule of law and with the kind of order which kept the poor in their place . |
| 16 | Within clearly defined limits , however , Miliutin believed in change . |
| 17 | Instead they have voted for a man who promised change , who believed in change and who recognised that change had to come . |
| 18 | Everyone believed in liberalism but no one was actually for it — such was the view of one ‘ lively socialist ’ after the election of 1929 . |
| 19 | Ellen was amused by my naïvety , claiming that if she dug deep enough she would probably discover that I still believed in Santa Claus . |
| 20 | Poor Italian immigrants , who believed in anarchist ideas , they both protested their innocence at their trial . |
| 21 | Rex Cunningham , it had transpired , was a toper of the old school , who believed in polishing off a bottle where lesser men would merely finish a glass . |
| 22 | The words speak a philosophy known and believed in China for many centuries . |
| 23 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 24 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 25 | He believed in Jesus , and an essential part of his coming to faith rested on the exact correspondence he observed between what Jesus had said and what in fact had happened . |
| 26 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 27 | They believed in culture in addition to , and sometimes as an alternative to religion , in extreme cases substituting the ritual attendance at opera , theatre or concert for that at church . |
| 28 | ‘ You know you believed in Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) ? ’ he managed to say . |
| 29 | She believed in Adolph 's fairy story . |
| 30 | But he believed in principle the prosecutions should continue . |