Example sentences of "believe that [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She now believed that her sister had died , if not through the direct actions of the people downstairs , then at least through her unhealthy associations with them . |
| 2 | Elinor believed that her novels provided her readers with excitement , helped them to escape from insecurity and anxiety , frustration and drudgery , misery and sorrow , and of course , the boring daily routine of a life in which nothing was likely to change . |
| 3 | The next great archbishop after Anselm was Thomas Becket , The monks of his day , like those of Anselm 's , believed that their archbishop had not tried hard enough to defend their rights . |
| 4 | The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added . |
| 5 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 6 | According to press reports Karami believed that his government had been penalized by the West for its close links with Syria and for its strong commitment at the Middle East peace talks to an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon . |
| 7 | Lord Cullen believed that his remit did not allow him to move too far into the question of labour relations , and said so in paragraph 21.83 of his report . |
| 8 | Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself . |
| 9 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 10 | The leather trade was one which did not take a great deal of effort to run successfully but then Craig believed that his brother had a hand in the unprofitable deals Uncle Thomas had made and had profited from them . |
| 11 | The Protestant marriage did n't reconcile his father , who believed that his son had been caught and was marrying because he had some misplaced sense of honour . |
| 12 | West believed that his mother had murdered his father ; the idea preyed upon him and is thought to have been contributory to his early death . |
| 13 | Perhaps as a consequence of this , few seemed to find having to submit a report a threatening prospect , only a fifth of teachers believing that their school had felt threatened in any way . |
| 14 | Lugard , in his Political Memoranda , employed the words of Henry Lawrence to impress upon his officers the importance of constant travel among the people , and like him selected his administrators from among the military , believing that their training had taught them , as no other could , the proper exercise of responsibility . |
| 15 | The issue which divided public opinion largely revolved around the ineffectiveness of the prison system and the ease with which convicts could bamboozle prison chaplains into believing that their characters had been reformed , thus securing their release on ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ , and there was little room fur the idea that the roots of crime might be found in social conditions . |
| 16 | They were somewhat more negative in respect of its efficiency , generally believing that its use leads to rationalization rather than criticism and that its use is too time-consuming . |
| 17 | The Marine Conservation Society have claimed that is a politically-led conspiracy to confuse the public into believing that our beaches meet European standards when actually they do not . |
| 18 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 19 | Leith felt sick to her stomach when Mr Ardis , either not believing that his son had just pounced unencouraged on her , or perhaps covering up for his son 's weaknesses , told her that a month 's severance pay would be sent to her , and dismissed her on the spot . |
| 20 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 21 | But she did believe that her revelations had not been bestowed upon her for herself but for everybody . |
| 22 | Some people do seriously believe that their records sound better if the labels are smeared with ‘ neutralising cream ’ and stored with the sleeve notes pointing in a particular direction to align the printing inks . |
| 23 | Britons complain about it all the time : nominal interest rates at 15–20% , depending on the borrower , make most managers believe that their capital costs more than anybody 's . |
| 24 | America could not believe that their elite fighting forces could be quashed by a bunch of peasants , and that was why they were so determined to win . |
| 25 | Years later I was at first comforted to read that an adult man could express similar sentiments about himself : ‘ When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable . |
| 26 | I do not believe that my statement means that the Germans will not necessarily take the system into the aircraft that they order . |
| 27 | Rostov knew that he did not believe that his failure to resolve matters with Alexei was due to karma , or fate , any more than Yuan did . |
| 28 | Diamonds Galore 's jockey Aaron Gryder could hardly believe that his horse had been murdered by a youngster . |
| 29 | Empire may strengthen the hand of prudence , because international humiliations tempt subjects to believe that their Emperor has no clothes . |
| 30 | The more she thought about it , the more her confidence ebbed away until she was ready to believe that her efforts had turned up nothing of positive help . |