Example sentences of "[pron] believed that [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 2 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 3 | They believed that mental illness was substantially underfunded in their region . |
| 4 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 5 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 6 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 7 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 8 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 9 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 10 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |