Example sentences of "believe that the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Garda spokesman said he believed that the drugs had originated in north Africa and had been brought ashore from a yacht . |
| 2 | Baker 's announcement was greeted with satisfaction by many Arab representatives who believed that the settlements issue was the major obstruction to progress on the peace process . |
| 3 | He believed that the waters of self-expression were dangerous arid decidedly murky and that children could readily be influenced by chance currents and flounder ! |
| 4 | Higgs believed that the services of a working man 's wife were more valuable economically when they were employed at home than in the labour market . |
| 5 | He believed that the creatures inside the Grail Castle must not breed , for it was not to be thought of that the nightmare perpetuated by the sorcerers should be passed on . |
| 6 | A typical Londoner through and through , he believed that the aims of the N.D.D.S. were in conflict with those of the R.A.D.D. Following the demise of the N.D.D.S. , he played no part in the formation of the British Deaf and Dumb Association , concentrating instead on improving the services and influence of the R.A.D.D. throughout London and nearby towns . |
| 7 | Like Plato , he believed that the concepts of time and the universe were inseparable , each being essential to the other . |
| 8 | In those early years Laura believed that the prints were more important than the styles . |
| 9 | The most distinguished among them was Alfred Einstein , editor of the third edition of the Kochel catalogue , who believed that the dots were simply strokes shrunken due to haste . |
| 10 | Maltwood believed that the figures were laid out in prehistoric times as a form of temple or sanctuary , using the natural forms of the landscape with a minimum of artificial alteration . |
| 11 | Let me say I believed that the wrongs of women were interconnected with and subsidiary to the wrongs of man ; that to work for the revolution was to work , indirectly , for women . |
| 12 | Though medical science believed that the muscles affected by polio simply withered and could not be restored , she was convinced that the deformities which followed attacks of infantile paralysis were caused by muscle spasms . |
| 13 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 14 | While inevitably losing office in 1660 , he cleared his accounts successfully , while years later Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] believed that the finances of the navy had never been better handled than while he was treasurer . |
| 15 | The ones I spoke with believed that the authorities had failed to address the real issues . |
| 16 | The Fiji police believed that the arms , seized by Australian customs officials in Sydney , were intended for disaffected Fijian Indians [ see also p. 36700 ] . |
| 17 | In these ways Mill believed that the interests of the governors and the governed could be brought into accord . |
| 18 | Even liberals believed that the colonies would remain loyal if they received economic benefits and shared in the ideals of liberty , equality and fraternity , which France provided through her ‘ civilising mission ’ . |
| 19 | Ellis believed that the women 's movement had taken a wrong turn in demanding equality with men in the public sphere and should rather have worked for the elevation of motherhood . |
| 20 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 21 | He believed that the ray-vibrations invoked to explain light and radiant heat might happen in the lines of force ( which he seemed to have almost demonstrated experimentally ) rather than in the hypothetical ether . |
| 22 | Waddell , a Professor of Tibetan at the University of London , believed that the Aryans were the bearers of culture and had originated all the main civilizations in history . |
| 23 | On the whole the interviewees believed that the advantages greatly outweighed the disadvantages . |
| 24 | He believed that the activities of trade unions should be restricted to the sphere of welfare , but he strongly supported the provision of education for working men and women , establishing a works library in 1848 , a new School of Science and Art in Oldham in 1865 , and a works school in 1866 . |
| 25 | Dr Janet Campbell , who took charge of child and maternal welfare in the new Ministry of Health in 1919 , believed that the dangers of underfeeding and anaemia were more acute than any danger resulting from the work itself , although fatigue was identified as a major problem . |
| 26 | Economists were afraid that the country was over-populated and believed that the problems of poverty and unemployment would be reduced if the surplus hands and mouths would go overseas , but it did not follow that the government was going to pay for them to go . |
| 27 | He accepted that each country presents different problems , requiring special solution , but believed that the problems of one country are linked to those of other countries in the same region . |
| 28 | Duguit believed that the rights and duties of rulers and ruled could be founded on this fundamental fact . |
| 29 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 30 | Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again . |