Example sentences of "believed in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the end of the war , as one of the victors , we still believed in the absolute viability of the independent nation state . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Like Taylor before him , Fayol believed in the motivating force of money . |
| 7 | The Captain was an egocentric man , one who believed in the great blueprints of life . |
| 8 | He believed in the simple life and slept on a mattress on the floor . |
| 9 | 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 — |
| 10 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
| 11 | Instead , they believed in the organic unity of the whole universe , and they regarded intelligence as a refined material substance with a fiery nature . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Above all , he believed in the three match officials working as a team , an improbable example of which is recalled by Peter Willis . |
| 14 | He ‘ believed in the green light , the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ] . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |