Example sentences of "he believed that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 4 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 9 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He believed that abrupt changes on the earth 's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained , permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 18 | 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 . |