Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] believe [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the days of Frederick the Great the Germans had been brought up to believe that the Poles were drunken , brutish and in every way inferior . |
| 2 | We may have been brought up to believe that it was selfish to put our own needs before others . |
| 3 | Stella had been brought up to believe that Catholicism was a plague rather than a religion . |
| 4 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 5 | He had been brought up to believe that marriage was for ever . |
| 6 | He had been brought up to believe that policemen were havens of security , to whom you turned in times of trouble . |
| 7 | People are brought up to believe that to be successful in science you have first to have your right cerebral hemisphere obliterated ; and the people ( like a lot of teachers ) who perpetrate this nonsense should be fried slowly in rancid yak fat . |
| 8 | Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland . |
| 9 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 10 | So everyone is unhappy and , what is worse still , the children are being brought up to believe that the old should always be given second best and be prepared to shrink into the smallest ‘ shell ’ that is offered to them . |
| 11 | You see , one 's brought up to believe that Shakespeare 's always right ; but he was n't , when he said that . |