Example sentences of "believed [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 2 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 3 | I never believed as a Tory MP to be in a situation where I would condemn the actions of a Tory Government in a matter of this kind . ’ |
| 4 | And he was proud in his puny and isolated fight , and believed in a vague victory in the future , and a present of martyrdom . |
| 5 | Marr and Morrissey believed in a certain purity and honesty . |
| 6 | Ken believed in a supreme being , but said he would never pray for help if he got into trouble . |
| 7 | Mr Freeman said he believed in a Christian humanism which meant God was merely ‘ the sum of human aspirations ’ rather than ‘ a supernatural being intervening in man 's affairs ’ . |
| 8 | The Cathars were a movement in Southern France who believed in a dual world of Spirit-Flesh , of Good and Evil fighting each other . |
| 9 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 10 | He believed in the established order but found no authority in the Scriptures for a hierarchy of Pope and bishops ; in the early Church indeed he found that riches were despised . |
| 11 | Two days later he called for a purge of FIS ranks ; only those " who believed in the new era for the country and in others ' right of expression " should be retained . |
| 12 | At the end of the war , as one of the victors , we still believed in the absolute viability of the independent nation state . |
| 13 | Well , seventy-five per cent of me knew it was real and the rest of me , well , silly though it sounds , I almost believed in the horsy hobgoblins . ’ |
| 14 | Over half the respondents acknowledged that dreams could foretell the future , and among those who believed in the literal truth of the accounts of dreaming in the New Testament , this proportion was much higher . |
| 15 | Like Taylor before him , Fayol believed in the motivating force of money . |
| 16 | The Captain was an egocentric man , one who believed in the great blueprints of life . |
| 17 | He believed in the simple life and slept on a mattress on the floor . |
| 18 | He provides one of the vagaries of political life , in that in 1984 he was deselected as a European candidate because he believed in the European Community , whereas he was imposed as the Labour party 's candidate a few weeks ago — |
| 19 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
| 20 | Instead , they believed in the organic unity of the whole universe , and they regarded intelligence as a refined material substance with a fiery nature . |
| 21 | To what degree , however , such a view of time was developed in Mesopotamian thought is not revealed by the cuneiform records , although according to Seneca the late Babylonian astronomer-priest Berossus ( c.300 BC ) believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the universe . |
| 22 | Above all , he believed in the three match officials working as a team , an improbable example of which is recalled by Peter Willis . |
| 23 | He ‘ believed in the green light , the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us ’ . |
| 24 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 25 | A positivist and a materialist , convinced of the importance of an inductive approach to science , he believed in the physical basis of mental illness , and developed the evolutionary ideas of Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin [ qq.v. ] and the neurophysiology of W. B. Carpenter and Thomas Laycock [ qq.v . ] . |
| 26 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 27 | The Nez Perce believed in an infinite number of spirits , all of them a part of one omnipotent deity and embodying a sacred Wyakin power , which was present in the land , elements and animals of their country . |
| 28 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
| 29 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |