Example sentences of "[noun] believed that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 2 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 3 | Radical pioneers of birth control in the 1820s like Richard Carlile believed that a diminished workforce , by reducing competition , would benefit wages , but such arguments often received short shrift . |
| 4 | Rather than regarding an Anglo-French Union as a core of European unity , Churchill believed that the essential beginning was reconciliation between France and Germany . |
| 5 | Contemporaries believed that the English archers played a decisive part in the victory , but poor leadership and indiscipline in. the French forces also contributed to their downfall . |
| 6 | The manager at all times believed that the stolen cheques were genuine . |
| 7 | In the early stages of the Channel Tunnel project British Rail believed that the existing rail network in the South East could cope with any extra traffic after 1993 despite the fact that a report to Kent County Council in 1985 stated that ‘ the rail lines to London are already very heavily used and have little spare capacity ’ . |
| 8 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 9 | Officials believed that a major part of the financing of the attempted overthrow of the government was provided by his supporters , including his widow , Imelda Marcos . |
| 10 | Many officials believed that a large number of false cases were prosecuted , and that many were successful . |
| 11 | Soviet officials believed that an EEC-style neutralisation formula would anyway be unacceptable to the ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ . |
| 12 | Several Red Cross officials believed that the Swiss government had foolishly offered to trade Hariri for Mr Winkler and had then reneged on its promise . |
| 13 | By creating a more definite starting and finishing point to the season , members of the group believed that the growing trend of out-of-season holidays and short breaks could be accelerated . |
| 14 | Most observers believed that the Soviet Union 's reluctance to hold a Warsaw Treaty summit was connected with domestic anxieties about the instability of the Baltic states [ see pp. 37944-45 . |
| 15 | At the time , most observers believed that the real reason was that the BBC had been unable to persuade the newly-elected Conservative government to contribute towards the cost of setting up ( about £3million at 1977 prices ) or running a dedicated traffic service . |
| 16 | Some observers believed that the new formation should not be viewed as a permanent body , but rather as a means for the republics to escape the central power exercised by the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | But those watching the count late last night believed that the final tally would fall just below this figure . |
| 18 | Lloyd believed that the lean years at the end of Sobers ' tenure were the result of an unprofessional approach , with not enough thought given to the problems ; under Kanhai this improved somewhat , but after he had failed to beat Denness 's team the job was given to Lloyd . |
| 19 | All copies of the May 21 edition of the UK newspaper the Guardian were withdrawn in Ireland because distributors believed that a full-page advertisement for an abortion referral service breached the country 's strict abortion laws . |
| 20 | of industrialists believed that a Labour victory at the next election would be bad for the economy ? |
| 21 | Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself . |
| 22 | Marx believed that the basic contradictions contained in a capitalist economic system would lead to its eventual destruction . |
| 23 | SOME people believed that the Soviet Union had nothing in particular to celebrate , observed Mr Boris Prokhorov , of the official Soviet news agency Tass , yesterday . |
| 24 | Such people believed that the principal purpose of government was not to protect gains already made , but to facilitate further growth in the economy . |
| 25 | The ‘ country of the Iguanodon restored ’ is very different from Victorian Sussex ; the strange light which picks out the struggling animals also reveals how many tons of animal life the artist believed that the primeval world could support on quite a small area-as later dinosaur pictures always tend to do . |
| 26 | A minority believed that a large number of cases were based on minor grievances , and that complainants rushed to court in the passion of the moment . |
| 27 | Indeed , one school of thought believed that the female brain was biologically different from that of the male . |
| 28 | Like Friedman , Duesenberry believed that the basic consumption function was long-run and proportional , as illustrated in Fig. 7 . |
| 29 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 30 | De Gaulle believed that the Cold War , which had frozen not just the superpowers but the rest of the world in a paralyzing confrontation between two blocs , was coming to an end and that , within each bloc , the hegemony of the respective superpower was dissolving . |