Example sentences of "[noun prp] believe that [noun prp] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill believed that Britain needed a minister of Cabinet rank to carry out properly the forthcoming negotiations . |
| 2 | King believed that Kandyans regarded it as ‘ an act of daring , largely partaking the character of a dangerous field sport ’ . |
| 3 | Birbeck believed that Branson had played the joke as ‘ revenge ’ for a Music Week reporter feeding stories disparaging Branson to the satirical magazine Private Eye — and he was partly right . |
| 4 | Prof Griffith-Edwards believes that Paul became addicted to hacking . |
| 5 | Stenton believed that Offa dominated Kent down to 776 but that the Mercians were defeated at Otford and Mercian authority not re-established in Kent until 785 when Offa again granted land in Kent in his own name ( CS 247 : S 123 ) . |
| 6 | Dudley Ford had his suspicions and the police seemed to have been doing a pretty thorough job on him … but Doug Wilson believed that Shergold lacked the nerve and she was inclined to agree with him . |
| 7 | Yeats recalls receiving a letter from Lionel Johnson ‘ denouncing Wilde with great bitterness ’ ; Johnson believed that Wilde got a ‘ ‘ sense of triumph and power , at every dinner-table he dominated , from the knowledge that he was guilty of that sin which , more than any other possible to man , would turn all those people against him if they but knew'' ’ ( Yeats , Autobiographies , 285 ) . |
| 8 | Aleksandr Nikitenko believed that Valuev had embarked on " an enormous plan … to destroy any tendencies in literature which he considers harmful " . |
| 9 | Hodge believed that Jackson wanted American troops to remain in order to protect a long-term UN presence and this could frustrate the American wish to withdraw troops from Korea . |