Example sentences of "believe that [noun] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence . |
| 2 | The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success . |
| 3 | Colonel Fagg obviously believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 4 | The complicated narrative of the emancipation can not be reduced to the proposition that Alexander sensed he was facing a crisis and believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 5 | I knew no one in their sane senses who believed that Profumo was a spy , and in fact that suggestion was never made . |
| 6 | It was , therefore , in a sense government by amateurs ; and those like Socrates and Plato , who believed that government was a specialized skill like so many other forms of specialized work , naturally viewed the Athenian experiment with anger and contempt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly . |
| 9 | A firm advocate of temperance , she believed that drink was the cause of much of the crime , vice , and misery of the poor . |
| 10 | Leese believed that race was the factor which determined history and cultural achievement and that different types of men had fixed and immutable types of character and personality , exactly as with dogs . |
| 11 | Grant clearly believed that education was a lifelong process and his commitment to maintaining his awareness , even during his advancing years , is a example to all professionals . |
| 12 | Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling . |
| 13 | Most of the older boys agreed with Jack and believed that Piggy was a middle-aged wet blanket because he always thought he knew best about everything . |
| 14 | In turn they adopted the habit from those Greek philosophers who believed that dialectic was a useful mental exercise . |
| 15 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 16 | However , this was not due to any genuine belief in pacifism ; Franco , after all , believed that war was the normal human condition . |
| 17 | Ken believed that Orton was the man to whom to go when he was down . |
| 18 | Sometimes he believed that Eleanor was the love of his life . |
| 19 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 20 | After 1870 , their attention switched to believing that Germany was a more dangerous antagonist , a belief which was borne out until 1945 . |
| 21 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 22 | It is possible that the organizers had misread the calendar , believing that Saturday was the first of April , not the third ? |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't believe that Paul was a black magician . |
| 24 | During a three-week sentencing hearing in late September and early October , however , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , of the US Federal District Court of Atlanta , declared that he did not believe that Drogoul was the sole orchestrator of the Iraqi loans , and alluded to Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documents which proved " definitely " that Drogoul had acted with the full knowledge of BNL 's head office in Rome . |
| 25 | Did Mr Evans really believe that Hepzibah was a witch ? |
| 26 | One is not obliged to believe that Freemantle was a good poet . |
| 27 | Stella had been brought up to believe that Catholicism was a plague rather than a religion . |
| 28 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 29 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 30 | Greenpeace expedition leader , Paul Horsman , said that he did not blame the Iranians since " misunderstandings were bound to occur " , but that few people seemed willing to believe that Greenpeace was an organization wholly independent of Western governments . |