Example sentences of "believe [conj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Carleton believed that hard-line Protestants like himself were the queen 's only reliable subjects , her very ‘ bowels ’ . |
| 3 | Arabella Keneally , a strong anti-feminist and populariser of medical views on women ( especially those of Geddes and Thompson ) , believed that higher education for women induced hormonal imbalance . |
| 4 | Frank Salter , the District Treasurer from 1918 , believed that financial appeals for new income in a sparsely populated region with a low wage economy and high unemployment , was an insuperable task and in 1931 he was succeeded by Lionel Elvin , Fellow of Trinity Hall , as the District 's honorary treasurer , and who brought much vigour and commitment to resolving the perennial financial problem . |
| 5 | Reformers believed that one way of preventing these marriages was to provide clubs with attractive and organized recreational facilities in the hope that ‘ the girl who has her clubs will not need the idle companionship of lads ’ . |
| 6 | Almost all Japanese believed that colonial rule in Korea should be extended for a very lengthy period , if not permanently . |
| 7 | Apart from the basic contradictions of capitalist society , Marx believed that certain factors in the natural development of a capitalist economy will hasten its downfall . |
| 8 | British diplomats in Tokyo believed that increasing signs of restlessness could be perceived and that it would not be wise to delay a peace treaty for much longer . |
| 9 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 10 | Bishop believed that change was essential and reported on his return to Washington that there was undue complacency in Tokyo ; the vested interests in the occupation bureaucracy believed that American dominance in Japan must be continued for a considerable period and Bishop held that tough action would be required in order to transform attitudes and to terminate the occupation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hearnden believed that elaborate inspections of schools are unnecessary . |
| 13 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 14 | Huey ( 1908 ) believed that some kind of internal auditory imagery of words was a legitimate feature of skilled silent reading , and devoted an entire chapter of his book to the functioning of inner speech . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained , permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource . |
| 17 | Some authors have attributed the presence of certain southern plants such as the moss Myurium hochstetteri to the relatively frost-free winters while Clark ( 1956 ) believed that local ins of heather were less resistant to frost , resulting in a notable loss of Calluna in Harris in the winter of 1946–47 . |
| 18 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |
| 19 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 20 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He believed that abrupt changes on the earth 's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area . |
| 23 | We have come back believing that other children in our school could benefit from similar group physical programmes . |
| 24 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 25 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
| 26 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |
| 27 | But I do believe that one act of violence seeds another . ’ |
| 28 | Although I know that he does , I do not believe that all parts of the House do share that view . |
| 29 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 30 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |