Example sentences of "[noun prp] believed [that] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself . |
| 3 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 4 | For example , Simon believed that his salary would suffer if there were unions at his place of work : he worked in the sales department of a small company manufacturing aluminium products . |
| 5 | According to press reports Karami believed that his government had been penalized by the West for its close links with Syria and for its strong commitment at the Middle East peace talks to an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon . |
| 6 | Lord Cullen believed that his remit did not allow him to move too far into the question of labour relations , and said so in paragraph 21.83 of his report . |
| 7 | The leather trade was one which did not take a great deal of effort to run successfully but then Craig believed that his brother had a hand in the unprofitable deals Uncle Thomas had made and had profited from them . |
| 8 | Like Wilson , Nixon believed that his national mandate gave him a legitimacy that the legislature lacked , a body that was , ‘ cumbersome , undisciplined , isolationist , fiscally irresponsible , overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities , and too dominated by the media ’ . |
| 9 | West believed that his mother had murdered his father ; the idea preyed upon him and is thought to have been contributory to his early death . |
| 10 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |