Example sentences of "believed [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 2 | It was widely believed in the western world that north Korea was simply created by the Soviet Union in a manner similar to that used by the Soviet Union in eastern Europe . |
| 3 | He had once believed in the perfect system . |
| 4 | Today 's Communist ruling circles may no more believe in Party infallibility than latter day absolute monarchs believed in the divine right of kings . |
| 5 | A recent study , which included observation of tribunals , showed that tribunal chairmen in the tribunals believed in the investigative approach to the determination of appeals : |
| 6 | And even if you have never believed in the compelling force of destiny , you should develop considerably more respect for it by the end of 1993 . |
| 7 | The latter was generally believed in the eighteenth century to be a Galloway variety or cross , looking exactly like the Scottish breed except in colour . |
| 8 | In one such performance , James Luna promises to combine ‘ Indian mythology , Christian evangelism , and psychoanalysis to create a double-edged interpretation that has ‘ something for everyone who has ever believed in the romantic vision of the American Indian and bought into the guilt-complex of American history ’ ’ ’ . |
| 9 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 10 | This was an international body one of whose founders , the Czech art historian Miroslav Tyrš , believed in the classical ideal of the human body being in harmony with the universe . |
| 11 | Guinness drinkers in Indonesia had long believed in the recuperative powers of Foreign Extra Stout and this has not changed today . |
| 12 | It is widely believed among the general public that dismissal of a Bank Official is rare and is usually associated with some act of dishonesty . |
| 13 | It was believed by the other people in his street , the owners of the other semi-detached red-brick villas with Victorian stained glass over the front doors and children 's tricycles in the halls , that Felix was a Communist spy . |
| 14 | Only 1 of 6 observed episodes of asthma was believed by the clinical investigators to be related to therapy . |