Example sentences of "they believe [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed at least 5 percent of the people would vote for a cleaner , safer and kinder future . |
| 2 | We must know how the actors defined the issues and the alternatives , what they believed about the situation and each other , what they aimed to achieve , and how . |
| 3 | One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth . |
| 4 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 5 | But such dramatic descent to Sheol , the land of the dead they believed to be beneath the earth , could not in any way be expected , and in the story it causes panic . |
| 6 | The essential function of the Masai was to provide the perfect opportunity for the British to display what they believed to be their finest characteristics as a ruling race : the ability to understand and to gain the respect of proud traditional peoples , the self-discipline to treat them with courtesy , and the moral authority to guide and control them without resort to brute force . |
| 7 | The murder followed a protest by the Truka community against a local landowner who had enclosed land they believed to be within their territory . |
| 8 | So either they knew only the uncontaminated documents , which did nothing to strengthen what they believed to be an already strong case , or they knew the documents in their contaminated form , but knew also that they were forged , and kept quiet about them . |
| 9 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 10 | Finally MIND bitterly attacked what they believed to be the RHA 's intention to cut the Riverside budget for mental health by 45 per cent . |
| 11 | I certainly both dreaded and disliked the prospect of the law and order debate , for the atmosphere was so strangely hostile and so different from that accorded to all one 's colleagues … pressure and even bullying by so-called ‘ hangers and floggers ’ served only to force Conservative MPs who were against hanging to stand up for what they believed to be right . |
| 12 | These scholars tended — seemingly without giving much thought to the matter — to accept the standard ideology and the doctrine of uniformity that is associated with it ; indeed , as we have noticed in chapter 3 , they were also influenced by ideological positions which they believed to be ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 13 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 14 | The problems began when Mr Major and Northern Ireland Secretary of State Tom King , negotiated what they believed to be the best deal for the taxpayers and Shorts . |
| 15 | ‘ It is shocking that Unionists should attempt to use bullying tactics to instill fear into staff and stop them from voicing what they believed to be genuine concerns . ’ |
| 16 | The pair you may recall , kidnapped and threatened a youth whom they believed to be involved in a series of thefts . |
| 17 | The pair you may recall , kidnapped and threatened a youth whom they believed to be involved in a series of thefts . |
| 18 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 19 | For many Communists , it is hard to break with the party that looked after them , that they believed in , that their parents fought for . |
| 20 | They believed in exact equality between man and woman . |
| 21 | Because they believed in the Doyle family . |
| 22 | Nanny Fanny was also a Jewess , which caused a lot of bad feeling because Smallfry called herself a Catholic and so they believed in different pars of the Bible and were supposed to go to church on different days of the week . |
| 23 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 24 | Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalin had angered the Chinese Communist leaders , as they believed in rigid adherence to the Stalin type government , and they disapproved of any form of ‘ co-existence ’ . |
| 25 | Regarded as heretics by orthodox Muslims , they believed in reincarnation and the transmigration of the soul . |
| 26 | Instead , they believed in the organic unity of the whole universe , and they regarded intelligence as a refined material substance with a fiery nature . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 29 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 30 | So long as they believed in themselves they could make shift with constitutions and parliaments and dull republics . |