Example sentences of "[vb past] believe [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 2 | Garway was a staunch Royalist , who nevertheless , like his early associate John Vaughan , seemed to believe that constant vigilance had to be exercised to prevent the loss of England 's liberties or the wasting of its wealth . |
| 3 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
| 4 | Indeed , social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution . |
| 5 | ⅓ of drivers questioned believed that most accidents happen on Motorways . |
| 6 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 7 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 8 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |
| 9 | Most catastrophists preferred to believe that some form of supernatural agency was involved in the appearance of each new population . |
| 10 | The Nassau agreement , however , did not silence those influential Americans who continued to believe that British policy and thus Anglo-American relations were in need of serious reappraisal . |
| 11 | His mother had believed that forty-watt bulbs were perfectly adequate for overhead lights . |
| 12 | He refused to believe that physical laws should not make a definite , unambiguous prediction for what would happen . |
| 13 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 14 | A mechanic for Britax France refused to believe that British installation charges did not include the cost of the seat as well , ‘ It takes 10 or 15 minutes at the most , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |