Example sentences of "he believe [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 2 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 3 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 4 | His experience as president of the Scottish Institute had led him to believe that the way forward lay in joining forces with the English and Welsh in a single British Institute of Chartered Accountants , and in 1989 , he spearheaded the Scottish side of the campaign . |
| 5 | He believed that a place which respected horseflesh would not be wholly comfortless and as he had horses this applied to him . |
| 6 | In the same interview with the two journalists , Wilson made the further point that he believed that a faction in DI5 had pursued a vendetta against himself and his close colleagues . |
| 7 | He believed that the company would soon have a network of debt surveillance collectors throughout Europe . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State was so ignorant that he believed that the Bill applied to Scotland . |
| 9 | Like Plato , he believed that the concepts of time and the universe were inseparable , each being essential to the other . |
| 10 | He believed that the ray-vibrations invoked to explain light and radiant heat might happen in the lines of force ( which he seemed to have almost demonstrated experimentally ) rather than in the hypothetical ether . |
| 11 | He believed that the treaty could be endorsed by the United Nations so that in the final instance all major powers would be committed to respect Afghan neutrality and non-alignment . |
| 12 | He believed that the memory of every experience in our lives is imprinted somewhere in our body tissues , mostly in our muscles , and we can recover those memories by using a series of physical movements , positions and methods of breathing which will restimulate experiences of pain and distress . |
| 13 | He believed that the conflict of interest between capital and labour , which involves one group gaining at the expense of the other , could not be resolved within the framework of a capitalist economy . |
| 14 | He believed that the threat was temporary and held that , if nobles took a broad view , their prospects were good , but he also sensed the extreme urgency of the state 's need to foster entrepreneurial activity . |
| 15 | When Lenin heard about this , he believed that the revolution in the West was going to succeed after all . |
| 16 | He believed that the activities of trade unions should be restricted to the sphere of welfare , but he strongly supported the provision of education for working men and women , establishing a works library in 1848 , a new School of Science and Art in Oldham in 1865 , and a works school in 1866 . |
| 17 | Andrew Hugh Smith , chairman of the exchange , said he believed that the clearing house ‘ will involve market users more directly in the development of settlement systems and so enable the UK to achieve the rapid development of a paperless settlement , payments and registration system for domestic equities . |
| 18 | He believed that the nationalization of coal was a blessing both for Durham and for the Church in Durham . |
| 19 | A typical Londoner through and through , he believed that the aims of the N.D.D.S. were in conflict with those of the R.A.D.D. Following the demise of the N.D.D.S. , he played no part in the formation of the British Deaf and Dumb Association , concentrating instead on improving the services and influence of the R.A.D.D. throughout London and nearby towns . |
| 20 | A Garda spokesman said he believed that the drugs had originated in north Africa and had been brought ashore from a yacht . |
| 21 | The thought of the Marlborough boys ‘ discovering ’ him gave him obvious pleasure ; and whether or not he believed that the curriculum should include modern literature ( as Auden was later to say that it should not ) , he certainly believed , with his own youthful experience in mind , that the young should be enabled to explore new fields in the arts for themselves . |
| 22 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 23 | He believed that the success of his work depended upon personal anonymity and public non-disclosure . |
| 24 | He believed that the perfume of plants held magical forces and plant spirits whose power would help him concoct the elixir of life . |
| 25 | Not that he believed that the firing he had heard had been caused by the French . |
| 26 | He believed that the waters of self-expression were dangerous arid decidedly murky and that children could readily be influenced by chance currents and flounder ! |
| 27 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 28 | Four minutes later he claimed a second near Hal Far , but did not see it crash and had no witness , although he believed that the pilot of this aircraft also baled out . |
| 29 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |
| 30 | He believed that the creatures inside the Grail Castle must not breed , for it was not to be thought of that the nightmare perpetuated by the sorcerers should be passed on . |