Example sentences of "[noun] believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jews believed that God controlled everything : the forces of nature , Israel as his chosen people and also the destiny of all other nations . |
| 2 | The Jews believed that the Holy of Holies was the place where God was to be found . |
| 3 | Langdon believed that American determination to resist Soviet expansion in Korea had to be demonstrated and that the current unpopularity of communists in the south should be used to encourage the moderates in north Korea . |
| 4 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 5 | These indicated that of those questioned , 73.8% of secondary schools and 43. 1% of primary schools believed that there had been a decline in the quantity of choral singing provided in schools . |
| 6 | A local housing association believed that the conversion of an existing building into an attractive block of flats would assist the process of regenerating the city centre , provided a sound building could be obtained cheaply . |
| 7 | Muhammad believed that he had to reform the old pagan religion of al-Llah , the High God of the Arabs . |
| 8 | The Benedictines believed that prayer should be brevis , pura and frequens — brief , pure and frequent . |
| 9 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 10 | Nothing could be further from the truth than Kate Millett 's accusation that Freud believed that women 's destiny was a simple outcome of their biology . |
| 11 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 12 | Morgan and Engels believed that there were several peoples who still practices group marriage . |
| 13 | First , Engels believed that his source , the writers Fison and Howitt , provided independent evidence of group marriage , while in fact they too were enthusiastic supporters of Morgan 's theories . |
| 14 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 15 | The State Department believed that the US must either take on Britain 's role as protector of Near Eastern states from Russia , or witness a major advance for Communism . |
| 16 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 17 | Sinfield believed that they were often irredeemably tainted by ideology , at best to be read only in historical terms , or subject to symptomatic readings , seeking the fractures and fissures in the mystified surface of the text that showed the ‘ true ’ ideological conditions in which it was produced . |
| 18 | Hooker believed that ‘ The Church of Christ can be but one , in heaven and on earth . ’ |
| 19 | As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force . |
| 20 | Journalists believed that their message could reach even the lower orders . |
| 21 | Plotinus believed that the origin of time was to be found in the life of the world-soul . |
| 22 | Philosophers like Plato and Plotinus believed that the longing for this knowledge is innate in the human soul which had itself emanated , albeit to the furthest possible extent , from the source of all being to which it longs to return . |
| 23 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 24 | Later critics of the President believed that the resolution would have run into much more opposition if all the facts had been known . |
| 25 | Unlike the sentimental francophile in Downing Street , the American president believed that France had ceased , for the foreseeable future , to be a great power . |
| 26 | Lucretius believed that worms were spontaneously generated in mud . |
| 27 | Bombload was to have been ten to fifteen tons and the designers believed that after shedding its bombs , the Fugaku would have been able to outpace US interceptors . |
| 28 | Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself . |
| 29 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 30 | Herbert Spencer believed that there was a cosmic metaphysical er life force , if you like , and that evolution to higher , more complex and more integrated entities was a fundamental aspect of physics , biology and sociology . |