Example sentences of "he believed that [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 2 | Bullying and overpowering , he believed that might was right and woe betide anyone who stood in his way . |
| 3 | He believed that liberty was best preserved by maintaining the balance implicit in the guiding legal principles of the constitution . |
| 4 | There were several reasons why he believed that Britain was where such an enterprise should be . |
| 5 | He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly . |
| 6 | And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence . |
| 7 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |
| 8 | He believed that God was drawing his attention to this particular message from Scripture and that O'Neill was a harbinger of the troubles that lay ahead . |
| 9 | Like his fellow countryman , Spinoza , he believed that God was nature and nature was God . |
| 10 | Sometimes he believed that Eleanor was the love of his life . |
| 11 | He believed that reality was best approached through work or its cessation , whether in the shape of miners in the Borinage , labourers digging streets in The Hague , the poor waiting submissively in long lines in soup kitchens , or old men in broken top hats walking through the gates of almshouses . |
| 12 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 13 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |
| 14 | In the evenings they read together , keeping silent because he believed that silence was more real than chatter , and at half past nine they went to bed . |