Example sentences of "[adv] believed that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had long believed that the primary health care team did not really work but that it could be made to do so by adhering to contracts . |
| 2 | Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference . |
| 3 | It is generally believed that the normal oesophagus is only active in response to a stimulus ( deglutition or oesophageal distension resulting in primary or secondary peristalsis ) and that non-glutitive activity of the oesophageal body is mostly abnormal . |
| 4 | It was generally believed that the poor performance of the front-end systems required this . |
| 5 | ‘ I have always believed that the only way to increase wealth is to share it more equally , both globally and nationally . |
| 6 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 7 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |
| 8 | Will he further recognise that his announcement today , while totally predictable — nobody ever believed that a genuine consultation process was taking place — represents one of the final death knells for the discredited band of brigands who represent the Scottish Conservative party ? |
| 9 | Marx nonetheless believed that an external reality did exist , and that human consciousness could understand it . |
| 10 | Ken sincerely believed that a separate-bedroom marriage would be the perfect relationship with someone for whom he cared so much . |
| 11 | The ACC aimed to achieve the gradual economic integration of its members ; it was also believed that the four governments had signed a secret defence agreement promising mutual military assistance against any source of external aggression . |
| 12 | Trist also believed that the primary task of management was to relate the organisation to its environment . |
| 13 | Charles Letts and Co Ltd had clearly believed that the average school-boy had a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts . |
| 14 | Jesus clearly believed that the main aim of the ( Old Testament ) scriptures was to point people to himself ; which means in practice ( if we add Luke 's evidence to John 's ) , that through repentance and faith men and women should find the forgiveness and life which he had died and risen to make possible for them . |
| 15 | Isolated PHB is highly crystalline , and it was originally believed that the native granules were also crystalline . |
| 16 | It is now believed that a young man and woman stood in the exact spot where the car bomb was parked — just minutes before it was detonated . |
| 17 | It is now believed that the peculiar properties of water are due to what is known as hydrogen bonding . |
| 18 | It is now widely believed that no British government is able to govern without the tacit support of the trade union movement . |
| 19 | Although there was no official statement concerning the content of the agenda , it was widely believed that the two sides would begin detailed discussions for the first time since the negotiations began in July 1990 . |
| 20 | Hitler 's confidence in early victory made a deep impression , and it was widely believed that the final push would begin in March or April . |
| 21 | It was widely believed that the financial records supplied by Hakim were instrumental in supplying evidence for the charges against Clines . |
| 22 | It is widely believed that the vast luminosity ( up to 10 45 ergs -1 ) arising from a very compact volume ( a light-year or less ) in quasars and Seyfert galaxies are powered by black holes with masses of the order of 10 9 M and ; , and that such black holes should reside in the nuclei of many , perhaps most galaxies as luminous as the Milky Way . |
| 23 | It is widely believed that the British clothing industry is in a terminal state of decline due to lack of international competitiveness . |
| 24 | It is popularly believed that the main affliction is of the skin , because that is what is most readily seen and diagnosed . |
| 25 | It is however believed that the Divisional Court said that if the only consideration for a payment by the client was a disbursement by his solicitor , different considerations might apply . |
| 26 | Eleanor Rathbone firmly believed that the only way to remove a major barrier against equal pay in professions such as teaching would be to take account of the differences in standards of living reflected in the higher costs of bringing up children in the higher income groups . |
| 27 | It is commonly believed that the intestinal microflora plays some role in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis but no aetiological agent has been identified and there are only relatively minor alterations to the balance of the faecal flora . |