Example sentences of "believe that [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that religious ideas had an independent historical influence , and that the realm of politics was usually the crucial controlling force in social change . |
| 2 | Marx believed that Western society had developed through four main epochs : primitive communism , ancient society , feudal society and capitalist society . |
| 3 | Diderot believed that political rights belonged to property-owners , and Voltaire similarly identified " the people " with the middle class . |
| 4 | Many women believed that these reforms involved transforming the whole tenor of English public life and creating an ethical and moral climate founded on the teachings of religion . |
| 5 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 6 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 7 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 8 | In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies . |
| 9 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 10 | In my judgment , Parliament intended to and did provide a simple and expeditious method of dealing with a person arrested without warrant by a constable who had reasonable grounds for believing that that person had broken a condition of his bail , or was likely to break a condition of his bail , or was likely to fail to surrender to custody . |
| 11 | Phillips , believing that some players had lost confidence in him , quit after 2½ years in the post . |
| 12 | Believing that architectural beauty derived largely from functional and structural efficiency , Anderson constantly attacked the exponents of the Scots Baronial style , and thus ushered in a new era of refinement in Scottish architecture . |
| 13 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 14 | I do n't know if anyone saw Football focus on Grandstand but I could n't believe that two loonies had tipped Sheff Wed over Leeds to win the Championship . |
| 15 | We can believe that Roman justice had many advantages : but there is copious evidence that the prestige of the papal courts was not the sole nor the main motive of many litigants . |
| 16 | Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for . |
| 17 | ‘ I simply ca n't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets . |
| 18 | It is hard to believe that one architect created all three : the dour , round-arched entrance front , the blandly conventional west front and the garden front serenely composed about its canted bay with female heads , heraldic complexities and subtle drapes of rustication . |
| 19 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
| 20 | There is reason to believe that young children admitted to care have greater medical needs than their peers who are not in care ; and that a greater proportion are handicapped . |
| 21 | It was difficult to believe that these birds had been harvested for food on Mykines for generations , or to argue against the Faroese claim that the strict regulations which apply to the fowling are designed to ensure that the population numbers are not adversely affected . |
| 22 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 23 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 24 | Garway was a staunch Royalist , who nevertheless , like his early associate John Vaughan , seemed to believe that constant vigilance had to be exercised to prevent the loss of England 's liberties or the wasting of its wealth . |
| 25 | We were told that not only had the Argentinian fleet continued on their route to the Falklands but there was now every reason to believe that Argentinian troops had landed . |
| 26 | Motor industry executives believe that many people held off buying until after the election because of uncertainty about higher tax bills if Labour took office . |
| 27 | But what is it that we believe when we believe that one thing caused another , that the second was the effect of the first ? |
| 28 | Some , including Kent County Council , believe that large scale induced development will not occur without positive government intervention and that some towns such as Dover could be badly affected by the loss of their traditional ferry business . |
| 29 | what did fraud oh Freud believe that most sons wanted to do to their mothers ? |
| 30 | We believe that few theoreticians appreciated this point immediately , and therefore discuss it first . |