Example sentences of "[pron] believe [conj] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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1 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
2 | THOSE who believe that the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States will be a Mickey Mouse affair are quite right — Mickey , Pluto and friends will help turn World Cup ‘ 94 into a multi-million dollar extravaganza . |
3 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
4 | His attachment to the ‘ theory of courage ’ made him believe that the Western world in his lifetime had been short not of wit or of strength , but of will . |
5 | So far as Cold War issues were concerned , de Gaulle was an anti-Communist but he believed that the bi-polar world of the 1950s had brought an ever-present threat of nuclear conflagration and effectively left the Superpowers as the only states with true independence in foreign affairs . |