Example sentences of "believe that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials believed that a major part of the financing of the attempted overthrow of the government was provided by his supporters , including his widow , Imelda Marcos . |
| 2 | The Guardian on Oct. 23 reported that ( FRG ) security services now believed that a dirty tricks campaign against Lt.-Gen. |
| 3 | Although it was initially believed that lowering mucosal prostaglandin values in ulcerative colitis would be therapeutic , and that the beneficial effect of therapeutic agents sulfasalazine and 5-ASA analogues is through their ability to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , it isnow believed that a simple decrease in prostaglandins does not elicit a beneficial effect in ulcerative colitis and may even be harmful . |
| 4 | Griffiths believed that a greater diversity of service options would develop if the independent sector , voluntary organizations and private companies were encouraged to compete for contracts for domiciliary and residential care services : indeed , there is evidence from initiatives in services for people with mental handicap that having a multiplicity of different service providers stimulates creative innovations in services in a way which monolithic public sector services seem slow to do . |
| 5 | As there is a tendency to increase the complexity of CISCs in order to upgrade existing products , resulting in increased design time , increased design errors , and inconsistent implementations the university believed that a simpler RISC could be a cheaper alternative in the modern world where high-level languages predominate and there is little need for complex instructions for writing assembly code . |
| 6 | Altogether Eliot , who later offered his services to the Ministry of Information , which was founded on 5 September , two days after the outbreak of war , believed that a great deal could meanwhile be done by way of the spoken and written word . |
| 7 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 8 | But these were a tiny minority of the West European population and European governments did not take kindly to idealists who believed that a European parliament and an American-style single market could be created swiftly on a continent whose linguistic , cultural and socio-economic differences had been ingrained over centuries . |
| 9 | of industrialists believed that a Labour victory at the next election would be bad for the economy ? |
| 10 | Professor Arie J. Zuckerman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who co-chaired the Geneva meeting , said he believed that a newly-developed vaccine could prevent 80 per cent of liver cancers and that 200 000 lives a year might be saved ‘ at a conservative estimate ’ . |
| 11 | In the course of receiving treatment for a heart condition , Hinrich Medau became deeply interested in the work of Dr Ludwig Schmitt , who believed that a healthy state is more likely to be maintained where there is lively blood circulation and breathing to full capacity . |
| 12 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 13 | All copies of the May 21 edition of the UK newspaper the Guardian were withdrawn in Ireland because distributors believed that a full-page advertisement for an abortion referral service breached the country 's strict abortion laws . |
| 14 | While their opponents in 1830 believed that a considerable measure of parliamentary reform would lead to national catastrophe , the Whigs maintained that only a considerable measure could prevent a catastrophe … |
| 15 | Insofar as younger ministers believed that a Christian state should improve housing , lay drains or provide pensions , they could be said to have advocated a form of social gospel . |
| 16 | He believed that a generous gesture by Israel to accept back a large number might break the impasse , and generate an atmosphere conducive to an overall settlement . |
| 17 | A minority believed that a large number of cases were based on minor grievances , and that complainants rushed to court in the passion of the moment . |
| 18 | Many officials believed that a large number of false cases were prosecuted , and that many were successful . |
| 19 | Radical pioneers of birth control in the 1820s like Richard Carlile believed that a diminished workforce , by reducing competition , would benefit wages , but such arguments often received short shrift . |
| 20 | They , too , believed that a previous voice could be made their own . |
| 21 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 22 | Mr Bruton said those who believed that a British withdrawal , or a declaration in favour of a British withdrawal , would help solve the problem must answer these questions : |
| 23 | There were highly technical reasons why Copernicus believed that a heliostatic model for the universe would ease the task of predicting planetary positions . |
| 24 | To proceed towards such a dialogue Chorley ( 1969 ) believed that an integrated body of techniques for physical and human geography and an emphasis upon resources of the physical world such as water could be effected in a volume which ( Chorley and Kates , 1969 , p. 3 ) concentrates : |
| 25 | Soviet officials believed that an EEC-style neutralisation formula would anyway be unacceptable to the ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ . |
| 26 | J. B. Watson in 1914 and other behaviourist thinkers ( Hull , Skinner ) believed that an acquired behaviour element , the conditioned reflex for example , could be made to account for all behaviour , because such an element could be treated as a ‘ building block in theory much in the same way that nineteenth-century physicists used ‘ atoms ’ to build up a theory of matter . |
| 27 | But we do not generally fall into the trap of believing that a statistical correlation between two variables demonstrates that one is the cause of the other ; it is assumed that the actuation of language change is multi-causal , and we have frequently demonstrated that the speaker-variables interact with one another ( that is , that no speaker-variable all by itself can ‘ explain' a given configuration of language ) . |
| 28 | As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force . |
| 29 | Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne ANGELO ABELA ( father of Lucia , 2 ) Why Weeps the Brogan ? by Hugh Scott ( Walker Books , £7.95 ) A nuclear disaster leaves Saxon and Gilbert believing that a buried museum is their world and that beyond its great doors lies only dust and darkness . |
| 30 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |