Example sentences of "people believe that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | SOME people believed that the Soviet Union had nothing in particular to celebrate , observed Mr Boris Prokhorov , of the official Soviet news agency Tass , yesterday . |
2 | Such people believed that the principal purpose of government was not to protect gains already made , but to facilitate further growth in the economy . |
3 | Many people believe that the increased coverage is contributing to the ‘ greening of public opinion ’ but detailed research evidence to support that assumption has not been carried out . |
4 | In contrast , although few people believe that the poor should starve , the extent to which incomes or resources should be redistributed from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ to increase the degree of vertical equity is an issue on which different people take very different positions . |
5 | Some people believe that the different intentions of the experimenter and the abortionist , or the different location of the embryo in a petri dish or in a woman 's womb , are morally relevant factors . |
6 | Most people believe that the Asian elephant is the only one that can be tamed and trained , that the African species is far too wild and dangerous . |
7 | Most people believe that the British tax system is highly progressive , that is , the more you earn the more you pay , and the routine chant of those who earn most is that they are over-taxed , that ‘ if taxes were reduced we 'd have more incentive to work harder ’ . |
8 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
9 | But a string of bomb attacks in Manila in recent weeks has led many people to believe that a new coup attempt ca n't be far away . |