Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] believed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Pulteney believed that these two doctors , together with Rutherford , Sinclair and Plummer were responsible for Edinburgh 's reputation as one of the finest medical schools in Europe , and Miller preferred Alston 's Medical Essays to ‘ all the Modern Books of Physick ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher believed that greater local democracy would lead to a voter rebellion against high spending local authorities , forcing them to be less ambitious and more efficient . |
| 3 | ‘ Kao Tzu believed that each man , at birth , was like a willow tree , and that righteousness was like a bowl . |
| 4 | The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender . |
| 5 | Jean Jacques Rousseau , famous French philosopher , whose view of human nature , was what I would call optimistic , in the sense that , by contrast to Thomas Hobbes , John Rousseau believed that human beings were basically good . |