Example sentences of "he believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die . |
| 2 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 3 | He believed that religious ideas had an independent historical influence , and that the realm of politics was usually the crucial controlling force in social change . |
| 4 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 5 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 6 | He believed that Soviet leaders in retrospect probably recognised that a genuinely non-aligned Afghanistan pursuing non-radical policies was a better guardian of Soviet security interests . |
| 7 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 8 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 9 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 10 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 11 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 12 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 13 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 14 | He believed that abrupt changes on the earth 's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area . |
| 15 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 16 | He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained , permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource . |
| 17 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 18 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 19 | He believed that clinical descriptions of neuroses do not take into account the inner experiences of the patient which may be valid and even illuminating . |
| 20 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 21 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |
| 22 | Does he believe that bad employers should be subsidised by the state in that way ? |
| 23 | So he , Mr Major , is wrong when he says he believes that that dialogue , that process that you began with Gerry Adams has run its course do you |
| 24 | And if Hoylake wins its takeover battle for BAT , he believes that other companies will embark on the acquisitions trail , giving the market a boost . |
| 25 | He believes that one day he will prove to be the stronger , and for that reason , if for no other , he will never resist when I call to him . |
| 26 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 27 | But he believes that post-pilgrimage Libya ‘ is not the same Libya in the eyes of the other Arabs ’ . |
| 28 | He believes that each company needs to set its own targets for being a good corporate citizen , which can range from how much money should be donated to charities to making senior executives available for secondment to advise small businesses . |
| 29 | He believes that such delights will never be encountered except in his own sweet dream land , or wished-for world . |
| 30 | He believes that non-violent rape can be ‘ most excusable . ’ |