Example sentences of "believe [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several Red Cross officials believed that the Swiss government had foolishly offered to trade Hariri for Mr Winkler and had then reneged on its promise . |
| 2 | In the early stages of the Channel Tunnel project British Rail believed that the existing rail network in the South East could cope with any extra traffic after 1993 despite the fact that a report to Kent County Council in 1985 stated that ‘ the rail lines to London are already very heavily used and have little spare capacity ’ . |
| 3 | Such people believed that the principal purpose of government was not to protect gains already made , but to facilitate further growth in the economy . |
| 4 | The Daily Mirror conceded that the story was ‘ still corny , predictable and thin to the point of malnutrition ’ but believed that the lavish settings , its song-and-dance routines and the cast made up for this and added that Crawford ‘ brings a superb youthful energy to the role of the gawky , naive young clerk ’ . |
| 5 | Nicholas and Uvarov flattered themselves , however , if they believed that the western provinces were becoming less intractable than the Congress Kingdom . |
| 6 | The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him . |
| 7 | But those watching the count late last night believed that the final tally would fall just below this figure . |
| 8 | Some observers believed that the new formation should not be viewed as a permanent body , but rather as a means for the republics to escape the central power exercised by the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | There were those who believed that the new Chancellor lacked the drive and ability to head the government , which would be a far greater challenge than his experience governing West Berlin . |
| 10 | Slessor believed that the new thinking met Britain 's interests in both the short and long term . |
| 11 | Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself . |
| 12 | That is , they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity . |
| 13 | He believed that the only explanation for these results was the chimpanzees suddenly saw new relationships that were never learned in the past . |
| 14 | At the time , most observers believed that the real reason was that the BBC had been unable to persuade the newly-elected Conservative government to contribute towards the cost of setting up ( about £3million at 1977 prices ) or running a dedicated traffic service . |
| 15 | They believed that the real power base lay outside the centres in the social services central offices . |
| 16 | He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ . |
| 17 | Indeed , one school of thought believed that the female brain was biologically different from that of the male . |
| 18 | Teesdale himself believed that the unhappy spirit wanted to confess . |
| 19 | SOME people believed that the Soviet Union had nothing in particular to celebrate , observed Mr Boris Prokhorov , of the official Soviet news agency Tass , yesterday . |
| 20 | Most observers believed that the Soviet Union 's reluctance to hold a Warsaw Treaty summit was connected with domestic anxieties about the instability of the Baltic states [ see pp. 37944-45 . |
| 21 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 22 | The ‘ Heshang ’ controversy was one important debate which provided intellectual substance for those who believed that the contemporary situation could not continue indefinitely with all its dilemmas and difficulties . |
| 23 | He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save . |
| 24 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 25 | The manager at all times believed that the stolen cheques were genuine . |
| 26 | Until now historians believed that the woolly mammoths of that time could only survive in freezing conditions . |
| 27 | He believed that the political commitment existed to ensure that the independent countries of the region would co-operate effectively to reduce their dependence on South Africa , and accelerate economic development ; and that such a new grouping could influence decisively the way that offical development assistance was used in the region , and the course of development co-operation in general . |
| 28 | Rather than regarding an Anglo-French Union as a core of European unity , Churchill believed that the essential beginning was reconciliation between France and Germany . |
| 29 | In the late 1960s most economic commentators believed that the long boom was permanent . |
| 30 | Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel-laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . |