Example sentences of "he believe that the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He believed that the company would soon have a network of debt surveillance collectors throughout Europe . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State was so ignorant that he believed that the Bill applied to Scotland . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When Lenin heard about this , he believed that the revolution in the West was going to succeed after all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He believed that the nationalization of coal was a blessing both for Durham and for the Church in Durham . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He believed that the success of his work depended upon personal anonymity and public non-disclosure . |
| 15 | He believed that the perfume of plants held magical forces and plant spirits whose power would help him concoct the elixir of life . |
| 16 | Not that he believed that the firing he had heard had been caused by the French . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In his speech to the rally Lal indicated that he was remaining within the Janata Dal , but was prepared to leave if he believed that the party was departing from its principles . |
| 21 | He believed that the sexuality of man , unlike any other animal , developed in two waves and this could explain man 's susceptibility to neuroses . |
| 22 | He contended that he believed that the owner would consent , had he known . |
| 23 | He gave no priority to any particular relationship of inequality : for example , he believed that the relation between money-lender and debtor might be as significant as a basis for class as that between workman and employer . |
| 24 | He thought that a lot of residence was of high importance ; for he believed that the object of higher education was not just information , or preparation for a career , but a community of minds and personalities . |
| 25 | Dismissed because of his " too personal " interpretations of environmental affairs , Illes told a press conference that he believed that the environment would be sacrificed as the government struggled for foreign investment and the population grappled with increasing poverty , and added that Hungary does not have a coherent environmental policy . |
| 26 | Argentinian President Carlos Saúl Menem , speaking in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires , stated that he believed that the agreement " eliminated for good the possibility of armed conflict " between the UK and Argentina and would grant Argentina " broad possibilities " in the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 27 | Much in demand as a conciliator , he believed that the redress of grievances should proceed ‘ with all temper and due moderation ’ . |
| 28 | He believed that the study of nature was conducive to this , but he rejected the connection of this ideal with atheism . |
| 29 | He believed that the implementation of politics constituted its essence , that ‘ a working theory of the state must , in fact , be conceived in administrative terms ’ . |
| 30 | He believed that the workforce should be selected on the same scientific basis . |