Example sentences of "he believe [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Ford spokesman said he believed industrial action was a long way off . |
| 2 | Ford personnel director John Hougham said he believed industrial action was still a long way off . |
| 3 | Arnie did n't think that big was beautiful he believed small was secure-and Crocus had to be secure ; the blowback potential was massive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Unlike Moseley , Tyndall was far from orthodox in religion ; he was an agnostic , but his alpine books show a kind of religious attitude to a universe he believed impersonal ; he was a keen Darwinian . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not that he believed that either . |
| 10 | He believed that rationality , as distinct from rationalism , required fidelity to the knowledge we have acquired of how to conduct specific activities . |
| 11 | He believed that evolution worked by orthogenesis , in which rigidly predetermined trends drove variation in a particular direction whatever the needs of the organism . |
| 12 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 13 | Byers heard Menzies out , looked over at Cameron as though wondering whether he believed this too , and then stood up and stretched . |
| 14 | All through the campaign , Mr Smith harried Mr Norman Lamont for his claim that ‘ unemployment is a price worth paying ’ , but Mr Smith 's actual policy showed that he believed this too . |
| 15 | He believed this . |
| 16 | He believed this because he felt , for mystical reasons , that the earth was the center of the universe , and that circular motion was the most perfect . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll leave arrangements of stones , ’ suggested Floy , and Snodgrass had said that he believed this had been done on Earth . |
| 18 | He believed human beings to be conscious of their cunning . |
| 19 | In the Middle East he believed quick and independent American action was justified , especially in Iran where he feared British economic pressure might destabilize the radical government to the advantage of communism and the USSR . |
| 20 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 21 | He told the Guardian that he believed senior management took deliberate steps to hush up the dangers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Relieving Officer for East Greenwich , however , favoured giving relief to widows for the first few weeks after their husband 's death , but after that he believed some of the children should be taken into the workhouse , because he considered that an able-bodied widow should work . |
| 24 | He believed some movement in the case would be made by the end of this month . |
| 25 | An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 . |
| 26 | How could he believe that ? |
| 27 | Does he believe that , even with massive commitment and dedication , it will be possible for the large number of single-practice GPs in this country to measure up to the demands of the community care programme in 1993 ? |
| 28 | Or does he believe that is a route is put through there then that would increase development pressures in that sector of the district and the greenbelt notation would then run the risk of having to be reviewed . |
| 29 | Did he believe any more than Robert did ? |
| 30 | Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ? |