Example sentences of "[pron] believed [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 2 | Teesdale himself believed that the unhappy spirit wanted to confess . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here there was an additional complication in that Euric and his people were arian Christians , who believed that the Holy Trinity was a hierarchy , in which the Father , Son and Holy Ghost were not equal , while the majority of the Gallo-Romans , including Sidonius , were catholics , and insisted on the equality of the three persons in the Godhead . |
| 6 | None the less , Milton believed that he had a fair chance , if one believed that the English gentleman normally had some good in him , and that an appeal to decency and tradition could work . |
| 7 | We believed that the best practice reflects a consensus rather than such extreme positions , and we did not see this as some timid compromise . |
| 8 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 9 | They believed that the real power base lay outside the centres in the social services central offices . |
| 10 | That is , they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity . |
| 11 | But in fact they stopped well short of this principle , because they believed that the peculiar organization of meaning in poetry led back in the end to the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 12 | He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save . |
| 13 | He believed that the political commitment existed to ensure that the independent countries of the region would co-operate effectively to reduce their dependence on South Africa , and accelerate economic development ; and that such a new grouping could influence decisively the way that offical development assistance was used in the region , and the course of development co-operation in general . |
| 14 | He believed that the only explanation for these results was the chimpanzees suddenly saw new relationships that were never learned in the past . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 17 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 18 | He believed that the true art of novel writing was to draw characters who became ‘ beacons ’ pointing to moral truths as well as vehicles of ‘ amusement ’ , and that : |
| 19 | It says he believed that the historical awareness will help any linguistic scene to profit . |
| 20 | He believed that the human capacity for moral , social , and political adaptation had been stretched to its limit in the first century of the Industrial Revolution and fatally outstripped since . |
| 21 | He believed that the English drama would be improved by the deliberate tackling of large subjects , subjects of political and philosophical weight . |