Example sentences of "believed [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you believed brave men were fools . ’ |
| 4 | THOSE who fondly believed British tennis could get no worse have again been proved wrong . |
| 5 | Blackadder , a Scot , believed British writings should stay in Britain and be studied by the British . |
| 6 | It was the fact that people believed sexual liberation was going on — somewhere else — that was influential , even if it was not really happening . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many believed Japanese territory alone could not sustain the rapidly growing population , and the economic pressures for emigration , mainly to Manchuria , Brazil and the US , were considerable . |
| 9 | He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning . |
| 10 | Jenks believed international organizations were not mere conference secretariats , but should be active participants in shaping the postwar world . |
| 11 | Charles III 's minister , Floridablanca , believed good government would solve the colonial problem ; this was a profound misconception , inherited by Spanish liberalism , for it was not mal gobierno that the creoles rejected but government by peninsulares ( peninsular Spaniards ) as such . |
| 12 | Johnson believed good humour an acquired quality , one which came with the ageing process , and came of learning to please others rather than the child 's instant gratification of pleasing itself . |
| 13 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 14 | Spokesman Simon Boxer said : ‘ It was dreamed up 20 years ago when scientists believed nuclear power would save the world and feared we would soon run out of uranium . |
| 15 | Influenced by a learned correspondent , Girolamo Mei , a philologist and student of ancient Greek music and drama who rightly believed Greek music to have been monodic ( but seemingly supplied Galilei with thirteenth-century Byzantine melodies to Mesomedes ' hymns under the impression that they were ancient ) , Galilei argued that the polyphonic ‘ music of today is not of great value for expressing the passions of the mind by means of words , but is of value merely for the wind and stringed instruments , from which the ear … desires nothing but the sweet enjoyment of the variety of their harmonies … |
| 16 | A Ford spokesman said he believed industrial action was a long way off . |
| 17 | Ford personnel director John Hougham said he believed industrial action was still a long way off . |
| 18 | Ken Livingstone , now a humble Labour backbencher , was leader of the GLC and guru of those who believed rainbow-coalition politics was coming to Britain . |
| 19 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 23 | Exactly the same proportion of 18-34 year olds , 83 per cent , believed young people 's behaviour had deteriorated . |
| 24 | Sixty-four per cent said they certainly believed psychic experiences existed and a further seventeen per cent thought them probable . |
| 25 | A survey could be done to discover what individuals believed recent opinion polls showed , and to find out which candidates the individuals themselves supported . |
| 26 | She believed cheap clothes could be made elegant by paring them down to essentials . |
| 27 | With the introduction of the Regulations in August 1924 the District saw a solution to its perennial financial problems and believed attractive prospects existed for expanding provision in its large geographical area through the three types of courses eligible for grant-aid : One-Year , Terminal and Vacation . |
| 28 | A survey conducted between 25 January and 8 February also showed 40 per cent believed bad debts were a big factor in their cash flows . |
| 29 | He told the Guardian that he believed senior management took deliberate steps to hush up the dangers . |