Example sentences of "he believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 4 | He believed that Soviet leaders in retrospect probably recognised that a genuinely non-aligned Afghanistan pursuing non-radical policies was a better guardian of Soviet security interests . |
| 5 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 8 | He believed that abrupt changes on the earth 's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area . |
| 9 | He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained , permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource . |
| 10 | He believed that clinical descriptions of neuroses do not take into account the inner experiences of the patient which may be valid and even illuminating . |
| 11 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 12 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |
| 13 | Does he believe that bad employers should be subsidised by the state in that way ? |
| 14 | And if Hoylake wins its takeover battle for BAT , he believes that other companies will embark on the acquisitions trail , giving the market a boost . |
| 15 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 16 | But he believes that post-pilgrimage Libya ‘ is not the same Libya in the eyes of the other Arabs ’ . |
| 17 | He believes that non-violent rape can be ‘ most excusable . ’ |
| 18 | Like Jakobson , he believes that literary language can be analyzed objectively and exactly , though rather than speaking of its ‘ poetic ’ function , he opts for the term ‘ stylistic ’ function instead . |
| 19 | He believes that literary study has a cultural and humane rather than an intellectual value ; and the implication of his recent work is that there are other ways of attaining cultural value . |
| 20 | He believes that Augustinian thought is largely to be blamed for the split between Christian morality and nature . |