Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] believed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if these commentators believed that schools were failing to hone their pupils ' political critical faculties to a sufficient sharpness , by the 1980s , as we have seen , right-wing commentators were expressing the contrary view . |
| 2 | Many contemporaries believed that Richard was unwilling to wait until the two Kings had completed their long-drawn-out preparations . |
| 3 | Moreover , many officials believed that chenas caused soil erosion and that the grains produced on them were unhealthy . |
| 4 | Scopes had broken the law and so lost his case , but many Americans believed that Darrow had won a moral victory . |
| 5 | All peasants believed that Odin fled to Møn after the coming of Christianity had made him homeless . |
| 6 | Many analysts believed that Cedras and his colleagues had only taken charge in order to prevent themselves from being swept away by events , and some senior commanders had reportedly refused to join Cedras in the ruling junta . |
| 7 | Most observers believed that south Korea would eventually be unified by north Korea with the support or at the instigation of the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Despite these problems , and the fact that the particles in the supergravity theories did not seem to match the observed particles , most scientists believed that supergravity was probably the right answer to the problem of the unification of physics . |
| 9 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |