Example sentences of "the [noun] believe that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Shias believe that Ali 's descendants — the Imams — are the lawful successors of Mohamed . |
| 2 | The Jews believed that God controlled everything : the forces of nature , Israel as his chosen people and also the destiny of all other nations . |
| 3 | The Jews believe that God promised Israel to them because they are Abraham 's heirs . |
| 4 | The Armenians believed that Ararat was the centre of the world ; but the mountain was divided between three great empires , and the Armenians ended up with none of it , so I sha n't continue this comparison . |
| 5 | The investigators believe that PROLOG achieves this exceptionally well , because of its flexible datastructuring ; a control flow which needs very little attention from the programmer ; and its simplicity and uniformity . |
| 6 | The DSS believes that NICs are due on such payments ( the Faculty has set out the reasons why it does not agree ) , but comments that it is possible to deal with matters rather differently by the so-called ‘ statutory method ’ . |
| 7 | None of the Khans believed that Artai was so incapable of controlling the violence of his temperament , Alexei thought , or they would not have elected him . |
| 8 | The rebels believe that Mr Major 's credibility is in tatters after a series of defeats and retreats as the Maastricht Bill lumbers through Parliament . |
| 9 | For , since the Egyptians believed that Osiris had actually lived in their land long ago , his cult signified that a particular historical event , in this case the death and resurrection of Osiris , could be perpetually repeated by magical simulation so that its supposed good effects could benefit those persons on whose behalf the rites were performed . |
| 10 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 11 | The government believed that BT could reduce the real price of phone calls in subsequent years for two reasons : unusually good opportunities for cost-saving technical advances , and a previous lethargy as a public industry which it was hoped privatization would dispel . |
| 12 | Some of the Fathers of the Church believed that Jesus paid the penalty to the Father . |
| 13 | Propaganda against the Woodvilles had led the commonalty to believe that Rivers , Vaughan and Grey had plotted to gain control of the as yet uncrowned king . |
| 14 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes that ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 15 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 16 | The State authorities did not need much convincing ; with the world believing that Shangri-La was at hand courtesy of Utah , State politicians seized on this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to revitalise Utah 's economy . |
| 17 | In September 1939 , when war broke out in the West , almost everyone in our part of the world believed that Mussolini would join in as an ally of Hitler ; in 1936 the German alliance with Italy , the Berlin-Rome Axis , had been established . |
| 18 | Since , in 1849 , the British had encouraged Constantinople to reject Russian requests for the surrender of the Polish and Hungarian refugees who had fled to Ottoman territory after the failure of the Hungarian revolution , the Turks believed that Britain , as well as France , had their interests at heart . |
| 19 | The family believes that Jacqueline used to pave the way for Iain 's escapes by writing to the school , explaining that he was needed at home . |