Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , the only person who believed that Alfred Molina would ever become a star was his wife , actress Jill Gascoine , and he credits her for his new-found success . |
| 2 | The woman who believes that pregnancy is a physiological process and not a pathological one may decide that neither of her doctors is correct . |
| 3 | Gomez 's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job . |
| 4 | There was a political culture of stability ‘ thriving on the creation of symbolic dragons — the English , the Tories , the Church of England , Twickenham ’ ( Griffiths , 1987 , p. 215 ) , a lack of a corporate revolution and an inherent conservatism reflected by one councillor who believed that borrowing money to finance capital expenditure was tantamount to creative accounting . |
| 5 | A militant who believed that South Africa , and indeed the continent of Africa , belonged to the black population , he was instrumental in founding the PAC in 1959 . |
| 6 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 7 | With these unrealistic expectations I 'm not sure who stands to lose the most — my daughter believing that you need a man , wealth and preferably a title to be happy , or my son who believes that women are beautiful and passive or wicked and powerful but , either way , he 'd better be handsome . |