Example sentences of "believed that [adj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 2 | One chief executive believed that such thinking was so important to his organization 's success in a high-tech field that he staged a highly imaginative top management meeting . |
| 3 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 4 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 5 | They believed that mental illness was substantially underfunded in their region . |
| 6 | The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender . |
| 7 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 8 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 9 | The KPP , clearly influenced by Rosa Luxemburg , believed that national self-determination was impossible under capitalism , since the logic of capitalism led to bigger combinations , bigger markets and bigger conflicts fed and fuelled by ever-increasing military and industrial complexes . |
| 10 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 11 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 12 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 13 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |
| 14 | In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised . |