Example sentences of "they believe [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she has a deeply freckled skin , they believed her and she was sent to do hard labour in the paddy fields . |
| 2 | The forces of bourgeois society were opposed to slavery and serfdom not simply because they believed them to be economically undesirable , nor for moral reasons , but because they seemed incompatible with a market society based on the free pursuit of individual interest . |
| 3 | So that night , at the disco they told them and at last they believed them and sorted out the magazine thing and changed the magazine to Mysteries from Around the World . |
| 4 | And they believed him , people believed in curses then , and they did what he said . |
| 5 | When Fiver said the iron tree was harmless they believed him . |
| 6 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 7 | An army of police — well , enough to show they believed him . |
| 8 | They believed him . |
| 9 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 10 | They believed they had come tantalisingly close , but they had failed . |
| 11 | Either because those in power simply underestimated the potential for resistance or simply because they believed they could in the end over-ride such resistance , industrial companies in conjunction with waste disposal firms ( and often in collusion with state health regulatory agencies ) dumped indiscriminately and with disregard for human health and life . ’ |
| 12 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |
| 13 | Hours were spent paddling around in the dark on the Suez Canal until they believed they had mastered handling of the inflatables . |
| 14 | They believed they were operating with Government approval and even risked their lives to spy on Saddam . |
| 15 | If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline . |
| 16 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 18 | If they liked you they believed they could teach you to do anything and by God ! you 'd do , it as well as anyone . |
| 19 | They were kidding themselves if they believed they were just electing a bunch of councillors to run local services . |
| 20 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries tenants throughout the realm had found that custom did not always give them the protection that they believed they had . |
| 21 | They believed me . |
| 22 | I do n't think they believed me . |
| 23 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 24 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 25 | Yesterday Miss Stott 's grandparents said they believed she and her boyfriend , Peter Ellis , originally from Tyneside but working as a computer analyst in New Zealand for the past 18 months , had gone on the three-week holiday in order to get engaged and to share their love of jazz . |
| 26 | They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up . |
| 27 | And apparently they believed it , as it did the trick . |
| 28 | Following consultations with the British Speedway Promoters ' Association , the Board overruled the decision , made by officials at Exeter , because they believed it to be unfair . |
| 29 | But my strongest surviving impression is of a large team of teachers , several of them coming specifically to Banbury to undertake this work and now scattered in headships across the country , determined to carry change through — not because it was imposed by politicians or bureaucrats , but because they believed it to be right and wanted it to work well . |
| 30 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |