Example sentences of "believe that [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Slavophile , Ivan Aksakov , believed that landlord–peasant relationships were deteriorating by the year and could be stabilized only if the government acted quickly . |
| 2 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 3 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 4 | Until then the Greeks believed that recent events were unimportant compared with the exploits of the heroes in Trojan times . |
| 5 | One chief executive believed that such thinking was so important to his organization 's success in a high-tech field that he staged a highly imaginative top management meeting . |
| 6 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 7 | The Government believed that postal ballots were essential for the nation 's industrial recovery and regeneration , Mr Galbraith said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 10 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 11 | They believed that mental illness was substantially underfunded in their region . |
| 12 | Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay . |
| 13 | Marx believed that capitalist values were completely determined by considerations of productivity . |
| 14 | The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender . |
| 15 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 16 | Many officials believed that these disturbances were prompted by needless interference with traditional society . |
| 17 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 18 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 19 | Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system . |
| 20 | The KPP , clearly influenced by Rosa Luxemburg , believed that national self-determination was impossible under capitalism , since the logic of capitalism led to bigger combinations , bigger markets and bigger conflicts fed and fuelled by ever-increasing military and industrial complexes . |
| 21 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 22 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 23 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 24 | The principal obstacle was Jackson ; as in Tokyo , Americans believed that Australian representatives were too radical in their political sympathies and that they worked against American policies . |
| 25 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |
| 26 | Jean Jacques Rousseau , famous French philosopher , whose view of human nature , was what I would call optimistic , in the sense that , by contrast to Thomas Hobbes , John Rousseau believed that human beings were basically good . |
| 27 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 28 | In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised . |
| 29 | It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice . |
| 30 | While some filmmakers were making expensive films positioned in a European never-never-land , believing that placeless films were preferable to British films , the documentarists and , to some extent , the makers of quota pictures , were dealing with a more everyday level of life . |