Example sentences of "believed [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Whitehouse believed that sex education , and in particular , discussion of sexual issues on television was coming to be dominated by atheists and humanists , with a concomitant decrease in emphasis on the ‘ proper ’ moral context of sexual behaviour . |
| 2 | Einstein fervently believed that quantum mechanics , if not inconsistent , was certainly incomplete . |
| 3 | They were all for nationalization , because they believed that nationalization was the only way to solve the problems of the development the future development of the railways . |
| 4 | In short , comparing individuals in a survey who thought that candidate A would win with those who believed that candidate B would win would not be comparing two groups similar in all possible other respects , unlike the experiment discussed above . |
| 5 | He believed that evolution worked by orthogenesis , in which rigidly predetermined trends drove variation in a particular direction whatever the needs of the organism . |
| 6 | Again , Herbert Spencer believed that evolution was an on and upward process of , of increasing perfection culminating in Victorian man , and Herbert Spencer probably did mean man as opposed to woman . |
| 7 | He believed that rationality , as distinct from rationalism , required fidelity to the knowledge we have acquired of how to conduct specific activities . |
| 8 | The pre-existence of matriliny was important for Engels because he wrongly believed that matriliny , as opposed to patriliny , was associated with communal corporate descent groups . |
| 9 | It was also important for him because he believed that matriliny , the reckoning of group membership in terms of who one 's mother was , was associated with a high status for women . |
| 10 | I never believed that story myself . |
| 11 | Janice believed that misunderstanding or mistreatment in themselves , though undesirable , should not necessarily deflect you from your course . |
| 12 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 13 | After all , there was a time when those who believed that abortion — by whatever means — should be legalised , were in a minority . |
| 14 | On Oct. 22 , 1989 , Ogonek published a poll , only 12 per cent of respondents to which believed that perestroika ( " restructuring " ) would lead to significant positive change ; only 23 per cent said that their living standards had improved over the previous two to three years . |
| 15 | He really believed that line of Blake 's : ‘ The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom ’ , something like that . |
| 16 | Marx Engels , as well as many of their contemporaries , believed that pastoralism predated agriculture . |
| 17 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 18 | US Congressmen believed economic unity , by leading to greater efficiency , would guarantee that Marshall aid was well spent and even demanded evidence of greater integration before agreeing to support Marshall aid payments . |
| 19 | The Aycliffe factory makes nightwear , for men and women , and the union believed this sector would be safe during the economic slump as other luxury items would suffer more as the pockets of the consumer got tighter . |
| 20 | The Thatcher government believed this system has a bias towards overspending by local authorities . |
| 21 | Nor is it impossible that she believed this legend . |
| 22 | Nobody believed this explanation . |
| 23 | No one believed this explanation . |
| 24 | We believed this conference would benefit from the IFI 's explanation of the criteria by which those projects were chosen and those amounts allocated . |
| 25 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 26 | They did not travel to Tibet to seek enlightenment in high places and in an alien culture — though one at least knew the capacity of the literal pilgrimage journey to trigger an existential experience of this power , and they all believed some kind of solitude and withdrawal from the normal conditions of social life to be an enabler of such knowledge . |
| 27 | He believed some movement in the case would be made by the end of this month . |
| 28 | THOSE who fondly believed British tennis could get no worse have again been proved wrong . |
| 29 | It was the fact that people believed sexual liberation was going on — somewhere else — that was influential , even if it was not really happening . |
| 30 | In particular , the New York Times/CBS poll of Oct. 22 found that 79 per cent believed foreign policy less important than home issues , that only 37 per cent approved Bush 's handling of the economy , and that 56 per cent believed that the recession was getting worse . |