Example sentences of "[pron] believed that [adj] [noun] was " 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 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 .
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