Example sentences of "[noun prp] believed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 3 | Muhammad believed that he had to reform the old pagan religion of al-Llah , the High God of the Arabs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 7 | Morgan and Engels believed that there were several peoples who still practices group marriage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Plotinus believed that the origin of time was to be found in the life of the world-soul . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lucretius believed that worms were spontaneously generated in mud . |
| 13 | Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself . |
| 14 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 17 | Hoskyns believed that these new methods could prove that the alleged contrast between Jesus and Paul was wrong ; and that there was an identity between the Jesus who lived in Palestine and the Christ who was the object of the faith of the apostolic Church . |
| 18 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 19 | Ken believed that Orton was the man to whom to go when he was down . |
| 20 | Later in life Ramsey believed that he learnt a lot from his short time at Liverpool . |
| 21 | Maj. Botha believed that it was of " cardinal importance " that the rally should prove a success and that a " donation " should be made to Inkatha to finance it . |
| 22 | Radical pioneers of birth control in the 1820s like Richard Carlile believed that a diminished workforce , by reducing competition , would benefit wages , but such arguments often received short shrift . |
| 23 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 24 | Rebecca believed that Lissa could bring about her downfall , and she was almost bound to try to do something about it . |
| 25 | Kylie believed that her image — the sound , the clothes the carefully constructed ‘ look ’ that millions around the world copied — belonged exclusively to her . |
| 26 | Hegel believed that a substance was exhausted by the sum of its predicates , which is another way of saying that he identified the categories of the German language with those of abstract thought , and those of abstract thought , in turn with those of Mind or Geist . |
| 27 | Carleton believed that hard-line Protestants like himself were the queen 's only reliable subjects , her very ‘ bowels ’ . |
| 28 | Although his plans for political and economic reform had yet to be clarified , supporters of Ben Bella believed that he was the only politician capable of ending the social polarization caused by FLN economic policies and the growing appeal of Islamic fundamentalism , as demonstrated in June municipal elections [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 29 | Rousseau believed that biologically based inequalities between people were small and relatively unimportant whereas socially created inequalities provide the major basis for systems of social stratification . |
| 30 | Jean Jacques Rousseau , famous French philosopher , whose view of human nature , was what I would call optimistic , in the sense that , by contrast to Thomas Hobbes , John Rousseau believed that human beings were basically good . |