Example sentences of "believe that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 2 | Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone … |
| 3 | Suddenly the Norths ' car was purposely rammed by a man who believed that his footloose wife was hiding in it . |
| 4 | During their courtship they believed that his true future was to be a poet . |
| 5 | To the end of his days , he believed that his ten shillings a week pension kept him , but of course it was my father who kept the two homes going . |
| 6 | Like Wilson , Nixon believed that his national mandate gave him a legitimacy that the legislature lacked , a body that was , ‘ cumbersome , undisciplined , isolationist , fiscally irresponsible , overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities , and too dominated by the media ’ . |
| 7 | Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court . |
| 8 | Magellan , overjoyed and believing that his ultimate goal was within his grasp , brushed aside the doubters ' view that he should , despite the discovery , turn back eastwards for the Moluccas . |
| 9 | SAM Torrance returned to action in the GA European Open at East Sussex National today believing that his sleepwalking injury might have been a blessing in disguise . |
| 10 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 11 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend 's heart is in the right place , but I do not believe that his precise proposal would have the effect that he has in mind . |
| 13 | Yet when she looked upon him she could not but believe that his sincere eyes could tell no lie . |
| 14 | Gingrich had been the first to lay formal charges which had led to the resignation on June 6 of the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Jim Wright [ see p. 36650 ] , and it was widely believed that his own investigation had been initiated in revenge in April by Representative Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) who on Oct. 26 filed new charges against Gingrich for alleged misuse of campaign funds and of congressional stationery . |
| 15 | If John Major believes that his narrow majority is a vindication of his decision to join his darling mechanism , then his understandable sense of personal triumph will have gone to his head . |