Example sentences of "[noun pl] believed that [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Journalists believed that their message could reach even the lower orders . |
| 2 | Most village cattle were undernourished and unhealthy , and many contemporaries believed that their condition was getting worse . |
| 3 | Speculation about whether the Assassin troops believed that their experiences in the Alamut gardens fitted out as Paradise were really a dream , or whether the gardens ' compliant slaves were all too real in the flesh is thus academic . |
| 4 | Exposure to hostile action by host governments might be substantially increased if the host governments believed that their nationals could run the plants . |
| 5 | Observers believed that his release was an attempt by the government to appease sections of the white community angered by the release of McBride . |
| 6 | Some sections of the press were apprehensive about the ‘ un-Englishness ’ of an armed police , but within a year 821 police constables had received instruction in the use of firearms — although some of their senior officers believed that their men were ‘ nervous and excitable ’ , ‘ men of excitable temperament ’ who were ‘ not to be trusted to use revolvers with discretion ’ . |
| 7 | Although Clinton now appeared certain to win the nomination — he had amassed 947 delegates compared with the 129 won by Brown — many senior Democrats believed that his candidacy could be beset , and possibly destroyed , by further personal scandals . |