Example sentences of "believe that the [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that the land was under the care and guardianship of the people who used it and lived on it . |
| 2 | He also believed that the worker was rational and would respond to financial incentives as a way of increasing productivity . |
| 3 | He believed that the threat was temporary and held that , if nobles took a broad view , their prospects were good , but he also sensed the extreme urgency of the state 's need to foster entrepreneurial activity . |
| 4 | In particular , the New York Times/CBS poll of Oct. 22 found that 79 per cent believed foreign policy less important than home issues , that only 37 per cent approved Bush 's handling of the economy , and that 56 per cent believed that the recession was getting worse . |
| 5 | Certainly the majority of people believed that the USA was right to try to prevent a Communist take-over in South Vietnam . |
| 6 | But critics who believed that the West was over-reacting were strengthened when Aneurin Bevan resigned from the British cabinet on 21 May accompanied by two other ministers . |
| 7 | Western diplomats in Beirut believed that the delay was due to an internal dispute among the kidnap groups , or with their radical supporters in Iran , over the political value of each hostage , as well as concern among the kidnappers about their personal protection from future prosecution . |
| 8 | If undue influence in the full sense is not made out but the element of pressure , surprise , misrepresentation or some or one of them combine with or cause a misunderstanding or failure to understand the documents or transaction , the final question must be whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed that the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper or unfair dealing with his wife . |
| 9 | Observers believed that the referendum was intended to build legitimacy for at least greater economic control over Tatarstan 's oil production ( approximately 600,000 barrels per day ) , if not outright secession from Russia . |
| 10 | Many believed that the country was teetering on the precipice of political anarchy and economic collapse . |
| 11 | William Coote , the association 's secretary , believed that the law was ‘ schoolmaster to the whole community ’ . |
| 12 | Sami al-Khatib , said that the government believed that the bomb was intended as " an obstacle for the peace conference and for reconciliation in Lebanon " . |
| 13 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 14 | The locals believed that the collapse was in protest at the new building work , but that hardly seems fair . |
| 15 | Many believed that the OEEC was inadequate to achieve far-reaching changes in economic conditions , yet actually it did succeed in lowering trade barriers and smoothing inter-European payments . |
| 16 | The substantial minority at The Hague who opposed the plan to send envoys believed that the time was not yet ripe for direct public agitation to stop the war . |
| 17 | Not so long ago , Western man believed that the Earth was flat , that the Earth was the centre of the universe , and that God had created the Earth in seven days according to a literal interpretation of a creation myth given in an old Jewish book . |
| 18 | In his speech to the rally Lal indicated that he was remaining within the Janata Dal , but was prepared to leave if he believed that the party was departing from its principles . |
| 19 | He started by asking those present how many believed that the end was , indeed , very close ( nil ) . |
| 20 | When they had taken him from the hospital block with his possessions and spare clothes in a cloth sack he had smiled and shaken hands and believed that the flight was close , Berlin he had thought it would be . |
| 21 | He genuinely believed that the economy was fundamentally sound and that the Depression would pass . |
| 22 | Nearly every member of the aesthetic Mafia ( numbering no more than five people in the room and two phone bidders ) who saw it believed that the table was the work of the important Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst ( 1826–1910 ) . |
| 23 | The early Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge for the gods to walk over when they wanted to visit the earth . |
| 24 | Not so many years ago , this would have been a non-question : Christians believed that the Star was one of God 's miracles , while scientists , by and large , believed that the whole story was a myth . |
| 25 | Dicey believed that the constitution was based on principles of private law , which had been extended to determine the position of the Crown . |
| 26 | Two consultants believed that the plaintiff was suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis but also considered the possibility that she might have Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 27 | The board agreed to Crocker 's demands because it believed that the bank was well managed , and because it knew that the Midland did not have the management strength to tackle retail banking in an entirely alien environment . |
| 28 | Mathew believed that the war was responsible for an upward trend in homosexual behaviour and , together with Herbert Morrison , a policeman 's son , Labour right-winger and Home Secretary in the Attlee Government , sought to put an end to it . |
| 29 | But his enemies believed that the sickness was just another of his delaying tactics and so they renewed the war as soon as the truce expired . |
| 30 | The pilot believed that the aircraft was unlikely to have survived had it taken appreciably longer to reach the ground after the failure . |