Example sentences of "[noun prp] believed that [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucretius believed that worms were spontaneously generated in mud . |
| 2 | Ken believed that Orton was the man to whom to go when he was down . |
| 3 | Aristotle believed that matter was continuous , that is , one could divide a piece of matter into smaller and smaller bits without any limit : one never came up against a grain of matter that could not be divided further . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , therefore , Sir Frank Stenton believed that Offa was able ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne . |
| 5 | None of the Khans believed that Artai was so incapable of controlling the violence of his temperament , Alexei thought , or they would not have elected him . |
| 6 | The prose in this section starts to function like poetry , ordering images and rhythmical cadences to convey an intimation of the way that Rolle believed that things are . |
| 7 | Whereas Jones believed that Pons was pleased with the offer , Pons reportedly said ‘ We never needed Jones ’ spectrometer , never wanted it . |
| 8 | However , unlike Skinner , Piaget believed that development is best explained by describing the ways in which children understand such relations . |
| 9 | Until they met yesterday in the quarter-finals of the £275,000 Silk Cut Championships , their first encounter since the semi-finals in Paris , the Soviet No.1 Andrei Chesnokov believed that Chang was more susceptible to power on carpet and cement . |
| 10 | Dougal believed that cars were unpredictable creatures at the best of times . |
| 11 | Leese believed that race was the factor which determined history and cultural achievement and that different types of men had fixed and immutable types of character and personality , exactly as with dogs . |
| 12 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 13 | Zarathustra believed that man was involved in this cosmic struggle of good and evil and that he was compelled to choose one side or the other through his own conduct . |
| 14 | Leavis believed that English was concerned with central moral issues and the study of literature could provide some opposition to the dehumanizing effects of modern industrial society . |