Example sentences of "still believed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |
| 2 | Although the nineteenth century had seen almost all restrictions on Catholics removed , the loyalists of Ulster still believed that to accept the authority of the Pope was to open the way to papal domination and the erosion of civil liberty . |
| 3 | Many still believed that its position should have been much higher . |
| 4 | Perhaps they all still believed that she was . |
| 5 | Some members still believed that the only rightful form of sex was between a dominant husband and obedient wife in a lifelong heterosexual marriage . |
| 6 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 7 | Like Marx , the first generation of communists after 1917 still believed that this process of relentless industrialization would speed the emergence of a society without want or privilege , based on the maxim , ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his needs . ’ |
| 8 | But even if this had not been the case ( and there was a part of her that still believed that he 'd come that second time to explain , or apologize ) she would have found an excuse for returning to England , just to be out of Marlin 's company . |
| 9 | In 1946 some still believed that the unity of all Europe , East and West , might be possible . |
| 10 | In medieval times many people still believed that the world was flat and no one in Europe knew that America existed . |
| 11 | The Commissioners still believed that the Act applied and referred the statutory declaration , a certificate and counter-statement setting out their views on the taxpayer 's statutory declaration , to a tribunal which would decide whether there was a prima facie case for proceeding . |
| 12 | It is unclear whether his Lordship still believed that there should be a different standard of review for inferior courts and for other administrative institutions , but more recent authority has interpreted the combined effect of Anisminic and O'Reilly to mean that the same broad standard of review should , in principle , apply to both . |
| 13 | At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature . |
| 14 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | The mid-nineteenth-century bourgeoisie still believed that its continent was grossly overpopulated by the poor . |