Example sentences of "[noun prp] believed that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langdon believed that American determination to resist Soviet expansion in Korea had to be demonstrated and that the current unpopularity of communists in the south should be used to encourage the moderates in north Korea . |
| 2 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 3 | Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions . |
| 4 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 5 | Whereas Herodotus transformed ‘ history ’ ( historia ) from a general enquiry about the world into an enquiry about past events , Thucydides believed that serious history could be concerned only with the present , or the immediate past . |
| 6 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 7 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 8 | Unlike Eisenhower ( who had argued in 1959 , that if the Soviets really intended to make trouble they could be deterred only with the threat of nuclear war ) , Kennedy believed that Western diplomacy should be backed up by increased conventional forces on the continent . |
| 9 | Marx believed that Western society had developed through four main epochs : primitive communism , ancient society , feudal society and capitalist society . |
| 10 | However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system . |
| 11 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 12 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 13 | Despite not committing himself about specific grievances , Woolf believed that genuine injustice contributes to a lack of legitimacy which in turn makes disorder more likely . |
| 14 | The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender . |
| 15 | ‘ Kao Tzu believed that each man , at birth , was like a willow tree , and that righteousness was like a bowl . |
| 16 | Rachel believed that mechanistic science could explain all phenomena , even those of the heart and soul ; Rachel would never have forgiven her , the last place of safety and affection would have been taken away . |
| 17 | Like most of his friends , Clark believed that independent television ‘ would produce a cloaca maxima of rubbish ’ . |