Example sentences of "believed in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was proud in his puny and isolated fight , and believed in a vague victory in the future , and a present of martyrdom . |
| 2 | Marr and Morrissey believed in a certain purity and honesty . |
| 3 | Ken believed in a supreme being , but said he would never pray for help if he got into trouble . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The Cathars were a movement in Southern France who believed in a dual world of Spirit-Flesh , of Good and Evil fighting each other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |