Example sentences of "who believe that " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly the Norths ' car was purposely rammed by a man who believed that his footloose wife was hiding in it . |
| 32 | The Protestant marriage did n't reconcile his father , who believed that his son had been caught and was marrying because he had some misplaced sense of honour . |
| 33 | The ‘ Heshang ’ controversy was one important debate which provided intellectual substance for those who believed that the contemporary situation could not continue indefinitely with all its dilemmas and difficulties . |
| 34 | Ralph was the only person she knew who believed that the special offers in magazines actually were special . |
| 35 | Although primarily designed to win over Catholic waverers , the new title was also preferred by some Protestant zealots who argued that only Jesus Christ could be the head of the church , as well as by those who believed that Elizabeth 's gender debarred her from assuming a quasi-episcopal role . |
| 36 | There were indeed many influential soldiers and civilians who believed that the victorious New Model Army should now seek to export its religious revolution , and who in their more ecstatic moods talked of marching on Rome and of setting Cromwell 's chaplain , Hugh Peter , upon the throne of St Peter . |
| 37 | ( I remember having an urgent telephone call from a professional astronomer who believed that he had found a bright nova . |
| 38 | Between them — or , more accurately , forming a triangle with them — is an eighth-magnitude star , named Sidus Ludovicianum in 1723 by courtiers of the Emperor Ludwig V , who believed that it had appeared suddenly . |
| 39 | As it happens , of course , this conclusion conforms to the observations of Freud , who believed that women had less sense of justice than men and are more often influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility . |
| 40 | This was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod ( now the 95-year-old Very Reverend Lord MacLeod of Fuinary ) , a Church of Scotland minister who believed that the root of community life was shared work . |
| 41 | Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere to policies strictly consistent with this view . |
| 42 | These difficulties were the source of much of the conflict among philanthropists , between those who preferred to give thorough-going help to a few and those who believed that the scale of destitution was such that wholesale relief was necessary at least in times of high unemployment , to palliate serious destitution and to prevent social disorder . |
| 43 | To those who believed that he had not rigorously demonstrated the earth 's motion , it would look as if he had condemned himself . |
| 44 | These were , first of all , those who believed that the purpose of legislation was to force people to be moral . |
| 45 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 46 | It was , therefore , in a sense government by amateurs ; and those like Socrates and Plato , who believed that government was a specialized skill like so many other forms of specialized work , naturally viewed the Athenian experiment with anger and contempt . |
| 47 | But these were a tiny minority of the West European population and European governments did not take kindly to idealists who believed that a European parliament and an American-style single market could be created swiftly on a continent whose linguistic , cultural and socio-economic differences had been ingrained over centuries . |
| 48 | There were those who believed that the new Chancellor lacked the drive and ability to head the government , which would be a far greater challenge than his experience governing West Berlin . |
| 49 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 50 | In this philosophy he was in accord with Gandhi who believed that in India employers and employees shared a common interest . |
| 51 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |
| 52 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 53 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |
| 54 | I knew no one in their sane senses who believed that Profumo was a spy , and in fact that suggestion was never made . |
| 55 | It is a conclusion that need not worry supporters of inequality but which should cause concern to those who believed that social services could and would create a more equal society . |
| 56 | Meanwhile the actual direction of the party under Mr Callaghan , aided by Mr Foot , was in the hands of those who believed that its main task was to represent the interests of trade unions . |
| 57 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 58 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 59 | He was a reductionist who believed that all the relationships he investigated could be explained in materialistic terms . |
| 60 | Their mother , who believed that Ali Reza would have been a stronger Shah and should succeed ( if not replace ) Muhammad Reza . |