Example sentences of "believed [art] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Still suffused with a sense of equality to the challenge that confronted him , he slipped deftly into the image he believed the other man would have of him .
2 SAVE and many others ( including the prince of Wales who compared the proposed building to ‘ a glass stump better suited to downtown Chicago ’ ) believed the new scheme would be simply disastrous .
3 It was also in a serious financial position but believed the new Regulations would lead to a general amelioration of the deficit position through the ability to earn increased Board of Education grants for its Chapter III work .
4 Among Tory supporters 48pc believed the Prime Minister can not remain a credible leader while 45pc thought he could .
5 A 2pc cut in base rates coinciding with the Chancellor 's Autumn Statement next week has been widely anticipated and Mr Bootle said he believed the downward trend would continue through to next year and stabilise at 5pc .
6 Whatever the reality on Capitol Hill , Ceauşescu undoubtedly believed the pro-Israeli gestures would win Romania influence in Washington and would perhaps lead them to accept his differentiation of Romanian foreign policy from the Kremlin 's at face-value .
7 In an article in Corriere della Sera , an Italian newspaper , Mr Monti praised Mr Fazio 's personal qualities , but pointed out that in 1984 Mr Fazio believed the central bank would be wrong to resist government pressure to finance its deficit .
8 Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office .
9 In Hong Kong , expectations of violence in the camps did not materialise but aid workers believed the initial passivity would probably not last .
10 Lieutenant Colonel Bob Stewart , Cheshires ' Commanding Officer , said in a statement read at the inquest that he believed the fatal shot may have been fired by either a Moslem or Croat gunman acting on his own initiative .
11 Count Tolstoy believed the whole debt should be cancelled because of that .
12 Slimane Bekki and John Pyle said they could not calculate the effect on ozone depletion , but believed the northern hemisphere would be worst affected , because it has most of the main air routes .
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