Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] believed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of foreign firms believed that Britain 's industrial relations improved significantly in the 1980s . |
| 2 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 3 | The early testers believed that tests would open doors to disadvantaged people , not close them . |
| 4 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 5 | Old-style socialism believed that wealth came solely from the toil of exploited workers . |
| 6 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 7 | Unlike the sentimental francophile in Downing Street , the American president believed that France had ceased , for the foreseeable future , to be a great power . |
| 8 | Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling . |
| 9 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 10 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 11 | Moreover , economics apart , in the countries of the Old World the middle class believed that workers should be poor , not only because they had always been , but also because economic inferiority was a proper index of class inferiority . |