Example sentences of "believed that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then a log broke in the hearth , sending sparks cascading , and the shadows leapt , and Grainne remembered all of the old stories , and could almost have believed that the ancient Ireland had awoken at last ; that goblins and satyrs and cloven-hoofed , pointed-eared creatures were prancing in the room with them . |
| 2 | It is widely believed that the vast luminosity ( up to 10 45 ergs -1 ) arising from a very compact volume ( a light-year or less ) in quasars and Seyfert galaxies are powered by black holes with masses of the order of 10 9 M and ; , and that such black holes should reside in the nuclei of many , perhaps most galaxies as luminous as the Milky Way . |
| 3 | Initially it was believed that the general devolution to smaller administrative entities would , in itself , create the conditions for asylums to be closed down . |
| 4 | It was generally believed that the poor performance of the front-end systems required this . |
| 5 | Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference . |
| 6 | It is believed that the above initiatives could generate a 2.5% reduction in casualties by the year 2000 within this age group . |
| 7 | It is believed that the Yukagir people had many languages and dialects at the time of the Russian conquest , although only a small remnant of this nationality survives today . |
| 8 | Hitler 's confidence in early victory made a deep impression , and it was widely believed that the final push would begin in March or April . |
| 9 | It was believed that the principal rumour-monger was poor George Brown . |
| 10 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 11 | Before the dropping of the atomic bombs , the Americans had feared that the Russians would not honour their pledge to join the war against the Japanese , and it is believed that the Allied forces were held back in Europe , so that the Russian troops could advance through the eastern part of Europe into Czechoslovakia . |
| 12 | At the time of the auction , it was believed that the wide expanse of sky had been skinned ; in fact the original sky was in remarkably fine condition , the skinned appearance due to discoloured overpaint . |
| 13 | It is believed that the discharging system used for grain removal is unique and involves removing the grain and transporting it to the mill without having to remove the boat 's hatch covers . |
| 14 | Charles Letts and Co Ltd had clearly believed that the average school-boy had a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts . |
| 15 | Originally it was believed that the preferred hand was a reliable indicator of the speech-dominant hemisphere . |
| 16 | I had long believed that the primary health care team did not really work but that it could be made to do so by adhering to contracts . |
| 17 | Trist also believed that the primary task of management was to relate the organisation to its environment . |
| 18 | Eleanor Rathbone firmly believed that the only way to remove a major barrier against equal pay in professions such as teaching would be to take account of the differences in standards of living reflected in the higher costs of bringing up children in the higher income groups . |
| 19 | ‘ I have always believed that the only way to increase wealth is to share it more equally , both globally and nationally . |
| 20 | It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon . |
| 21 | It is generally believed that the normal oesophagus is only active in response to a stimulus ( deglutition or oesophageal distension resulting in primary or secondary peristalsis ) and that non-glutitive activity of the oesophageal body is mostly abnormal . |
| 22 | It is however believed that the Divisional Court said that if the only consideration for a payment by the client was a disbursement by his solicitor , different considerations might apply . |
| 23 | It is believed that the observational material will be useful in highlighting subtle aspects of differential behaviour and therefore be of particular help in staff training schemes . |
| 24 | It is commonly believed that the intestinal microflora plays some role in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis but no aetiological agent has been identified and there are only relatively minor alterations to the balance of the faecal flora . |
| 25 | It was widely believed that the financial records supplied by Hakim were instrumental in supplying evidence for the charges against Clines . |
| 26 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
| 27 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 28 | Isolated PHB is highly crystalline , and it was originally believed that the native granules were also crystalline . |
| 29 | They have believed that the whole purpose of the EEC is to build protective barriers which should only be reduced in return for a high price to be paid by ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 30 | It is not known whether the Minoans had any concept of reward or retribution in the afterlife , though they seem to have believed that the human soul survived death . |