Example sentences of "he believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilder will be the first black governor in American history and the union endorsed him believing that he will ensure fairer treatment at the hands of state officials . |
| 2 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 3 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 4 | His attachment to the ‘ theory of courage ’ made him believe that the Western world in his lifetime had been short not of wit or of strength , but of will . |
| 5 | Because Florian Jones had made him believe that she was innocent of all that he had accused her of . |
| 6 | I did n't like this town when I first came to it , and … and I must whisper this , I did n't care much for him either , for his deaf-aid makes him believe that everybody else is deaf . ’ |
| 7 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 8 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 9 | There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die . |
| 10 | His experience as president of the Scottish Institute had led him to believe that the way forward lay in joining forces with the English and Welsh in a single British Institute of Chartered Accountants , and in 1989 , he spearheaded the Scottish side of the campaign . |
| 11 | He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions . |
| 12 | Some earlier research in 1972 had led him to believe that very high pressures could be attained , and also that the hydrogen ions behaved as free in the palladium crystal lattice , moving around and probably bumping into one another . |
| 13 | And she could not , thought Dalgliesh , be as naive as that ; he was surprised that she could expect him to believe that she was . |
| 14 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 15 | He had seen nothing in her lifestyle and her actions which led him to believe that she was then or wished again to become a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 16 | Whereas rumour led him to believe that Robert Beaumont was a cultivated man , likely to appreciate music . |
| 17 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 18 | Long years of involvement in Turkish affairs had led him to believe that , whatever he did to prevent it , the Ottoman Empire was going to collapse sooner rather than later . |
| 19 | There can be no doubt , therefore , that whether they are correct or not , Ibn Hajar and the sources which follow him believe that Molla Fenari died in Rajab 834 . |
| 20 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 21 | A painter himself , he was attracted to the problems he believed that Cézanne had faced and solved in composition and technique . |
| 22 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 23 | He believed that Peter 's reforms had disrupted society by creating a Western-type bourgeoisie and separating the educated class from the common people . |
| 24 | Robin Cook , Labour 's spokesman on health , said he believed that commitment may turn out to be ‘ too modest ’ by the time of the next general election . |
| 25 | Andrew Hugh Smith , chairman of the exchange , said he believed that the clearing house ‘ will involve market users more directly in the development of settlement systems and so enable the UK to achieve the rapid development of a paperless settlement , payments and registration system for domestic equities . |
| 26 | He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly . |
| 27 | He believed that the political commitment existed to ensure that the independent countries of the region would co-operate effectively to reduce their dependence on South Africa , and accelerate economic development ; and that such a new grouping could influence decisively the way that offical development assistance was used in the region , and the course of development co-operation in general . |
| 28 | He believed that membership of the exchange rate mechanism would give greater certainty to business and industry , help the battle against inflation , and secure lower rates of interest . |
| 29 | He believed that she pressed a clenched fist against the 2in deep knife wound during the three-mile journey in her killer 's car from the telephone to the embankment at Twyning , Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | He thought that a lot of residence was of high importance ; for he believed that the object of higher education was not just information , or preparation for a career , but a community of minds and personalities . |