Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] believed that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I knew no one in their sane senses who believed that Profumo was a spy , and in fact that suggestion was never made .
2 Like his fellow Republicans he believed that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy .
3 The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light .
4 A painter himself , he was attracted to the problems he believed that Cézanne had faced and solved in composition and technique .
5 The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success .
6 In turn they adopted the habit from those Greek philosophers who believed that dialectic was a useful mental exercise .
7 There had been trouble on Merseyside just once too often , and muddleheaded militants who believed that revolution was spawned in deprivation and poverty would be able to hold a little holiday in their hearts , secure in the knowledge that several more thousand British workers had been gulled into inflicting poverty and deprivation upon themselves .
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