Example sentences of "believe [conj] [adj] [noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Slavophile , Ivan Aksakov , believed that landlord–peasant relationships were deteriorating by the year and could be stabilized only if the government acted quickly . |
| 2 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 3 | Until then the Greeks believed that recent events were unimportant compared with the exploits of the heroes in Trojan times . |
| 4 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 5 | The Government believed that postal ballots were essential for the nation 's industrial recovery and regeneration , Mr Galbraith said . |
| 6 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 7 | Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay . |
| 8 | Marx believed that capitalist values were completely determined by considerations of productivity . |
| 9 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 10 | Many officials believed that these disturbances were prompted by needless interference with traditional society . |
| 11 | Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system . |
| 12 | The principal obstacle was Jackson ; as in Tokyo , Americans believed that Australian representatives were too radical in their political sympathies and that they worked against American policies . |
| 13 | Jean Jacques Rousseau , famous French philosopher , whose view of human nature , was what I would call optimistic , in the sense that , by contrast to Thomas Hobbes , John Rousseau believed that human beings were basically good . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice . |
| 16 | While some filmmakers were making expensive films positioned in a European never-never-land , believing that placeless films were preferable to British films , the documentarists and , to some extent , the makers of quota pictures , were dealing with a more everyday level of life . |
| 17 | Believing that private meetings were potentially a greater threat to order than public gatherings for recreation , in 1618 James I 's government intervened in these cultural conflicts by publishing the Book of Sports , which enjoined the laity to participate in a range of sporting and leisure activities on Sundays . |
| 18 | She is dubious about the mass appropriation of hip hop style in fashion , believing that many stylists are ‘ cashing in ’ . |
| 19 | It is an atavistic reaction , born partly of disappointment that decades of believing that infectious diseases are a danger past and partly from the underlying despair of those infected with HIV and the anger of the groups that represent them . |
| 20 | Believing that old certainties are ill suited to new times , Culpitt appears , like a number of other influential commentators — Klein and O'Higgins ( 1985 ) ; Goodin ( 1985 ) — to favour the development of more reflexive , less ‘ ideological ’ approaches to social policy ( ‘ unprincipled' , pragmatic forms of welfare pluralism seem to be the favoured option in this regard ) . |
| 21 | While believing that few teachers were intentionally racist , and while not accepting that racism was the sole cause of West Indian underachievement , the committee concluded that unintentional racism ( in the sense of stereotyped , negative or patronising views of West Indian children ) was widespread and did influence children 's performance . |
| 22 | One might believe that such matters were outside the review 's purview . |
| 23 | But I do not believe that financial rewards are themselves enough or are important except in the Herzberg terms . |
| 24 | As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ . |
| 25 | In reading the media recently one would believe that those figures were actually reversed . |
| 26 | Both rulers and ruled may believe that some issues are not a matter for public concern . |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't believe that these adverts are specific enough to do more than stimulate people 's interest in our general services , ’ said . |
| 28 | I do not believe that these anomalies are sufficiently important to justify further organisational tinkering , to the detriment of the APB 's ability to get on with its work . |
| 29 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |
| 30 | For example , study of the third sequence might lead us to believe that foggy days are relatively rare occurrences at Upland , whereas the powered transition probability matrix gave a result of 51 % foggy days and 49% clear days . |