Example sentences of "[verb] believe [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 2 | There was little point in my merely presenting a Moonie world-view — the Moonies themselves can do that — but I did want to try to make their religion and its effects comprehensible to others who wanted to understand how well-educated and intelligent people from ‘ good homes ’ could lead the kind of life they did because they had come to believe that a strange Korean was the Messiah and must be obeyed . |
| 3 | Truman and most those advising him had come to believe that the Soviet Union was aiming to spread the Communist system whenever and wherever it could : to Poland , Bulgaria , Rumania , Hungary . |
| 4 | I have come to believe that the soft occult more often than not leads to the hard stuff . |
| 5 | Roth also explains that he was ‘ educated to believe that the independent reality of the fiction is all there is of importance and that writers should remain in the shadows ’ . |
| 6 | He had begun to feel that he was persecuted by devils , and eventually came to believe that the Egyptian god Osiris controlled his will . |
| 7 | This in itself is highly significant , particularly since many New Testament scholars seem to believe that the early Christians had no sense of historical propriety and would be perfectly happy to dream up some saying and attribute it to Jesus , or to listen to a message from one of the Christian prophets in the congregation , and then put that into the mouth of the historical Jesus . |
| 8 | The , the erm conservative tends to believe that the free market should set people 's wages and that the supply and demand of labour and the number of people looking for jobs in an industry will affect the level that the wages reach . |
| 9 | Lord Merlyn-Rees — Home Secretary from 1976-79 — told the programme : ‘ I do believe as time goes on , watching the great influence of television on children , that they begin to believe that the normal life they lead is not normal , that what they see on the television and on the film is something they ought to emulate . ’ |
| 10 | The police began to believe that the dead man must have been a foreigner , killed on some ship visiting London 's river , his body disposed of in the darkness , leaving the ship to sail away . |
| 11 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 12 | Although one might wish to believe that a profound understanding by teachers of their actions would be the sine qua non of educational action ( Kelly 1982 , Easen 1985 ) , the presence of various forms of teacher-proof materials in use suggests otherwise . |
| 13 | And then a log broke in the hearth , sending sparks cascading , and the shadows leapt , and Grainne remembered all of the old stories , and could almost have believed that the ancient Ireland had awoken at last ; that goblins and satyrs and cloven-hoofed , pointed-eared creatures were prancing in the room with them . |
| 14 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
| 15 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 16 | The public is being asked to believe that an ill-conceived government has it in for these companies . |
| 17 | I do believe that a great work of art strikes a subtle balance between what seems too obvious and what seems too difficult . … |
| 18 | And I I do believe that the Roman boats had two . |
| 19 | Some Anglicans would certainly go further : the Bishop of Birmingham , the Right Rev Mark Santer , who is the Anglican co-chairman of the theological commission trying to overcome doctrinal differences between the two Churches , says : If Anglicans and other non-Roman Catholics really do believe that the Christian Church is called to be at peace with itself , how — given the fact that Christians are sinful — do you actually keep the show together ? |
| 20 | The fact that Dissent appeared to flourish under toleration became a great cause for concern to those devout Anglicans who throughout the 1680s had been encouraged to believe that the only way to protect the Church and State was by a strict enforcement of the penal laws , and their anxieties were further reinforced by the sermons of the high-flying clergy . |
| 21 | He may then come to believe that the Created God can be fully capable of fulfilling the need for a ‘ god ’ in some form or other , and of being of immense value to humanity . |
| 22 | It is not known whether the Minoans had any concept of reward or retribution in the afterlife , though they seem to have believed that the human soul survived death . |
| 23 | Those questioned believed that the main issue which Darlington voters thought the next Government should tackle was the health service , followed by education and jobs . |
| 24 | I think that er Mr Gorbachev has er seen that Mr Bush has only a few firmly held points of view , I mean that 's one of the criticisms of George Bush that he does seem to have only a few firmly held points of view on emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe , but having said that , er I think he really does believe that a unified Germany in NATO is a key part of stability in that region , and I think that Mr Gorbachev recognises that on this one Mr Bush is not er capable of being moved . |
| 25 | Even those who have fully accepted the thesis that all varieties of animal , including man , had a common origin in remote geological time have still managed to believe that a clear-cut distinction may be drawn between the culture of man and the mechanistic responses which we can observe in the interaction processes of other animals . |
| 26 | When his father remonstrated with him and refused to believe that the respectable staff of the Sunday School had put any such nonsense in his head , the wee boy protested : ‘ But if I told you what we did learn about Moses and the Red Sea , you 'd never believe me . ’ |
| 27 | They have believed that the whole purpose of the EEC is to build protective barriers which should only be reduced in return for a high price to be paid by ‘ the other side ’ . |