Example sentences of "he believed [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last of the bedsheets , ripped into ribbons , had been torn away but he believed that they were well north of the Makaa . |
| 2 | Nonetheless he believed that they were seeing genuine effects that were inexplicable unless fusion were taking place . |
| 3 | He repeated this over and over , as if he believed that it is only " they " whoever they were , told him how to act , then everything would be all right . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't believe you can go on like this and get away with it , ’ was his core phrase , prepared with care because he believed that it was in the King 's idiom . |
| 6 | His associate Auguste Laurent- and both of them were kept on the fringe of the French scientific establishment — was more hopeful : he believed that it was possible to determine formulae and structures , but not inductively as chemists had so far tried to do . |
| 7 | He believed that it was possible to apply scientific principles to each task which would replace the old rule-of-thumb method of working . |
| 8 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 9 | He insisted that no decisions about future spending had been taken , but he believed that it was right ‘ that there should be a widespread review and it is right that there should be a big debate . ’ |
| 10 | He believed that it was possible to " foresee this war of positions between the two Spains lasting a long time " , unless there occurred " the intervention of internal political factors ( revolution in one of the two Spains ) or external political factors ( mediation or a more active form of intervention by the Powers ) " . |
| 11 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 12 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 13 | The King , however , undeterred by this , told the Prime Minister that he believed that he was the only person who could carry the country through' . |
| 14 | He believed that he was the last hostage left . |
| 15 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 16 | ( d ) Meech held that the accused was under an obligation to retain and deal with a cheque if he believed that he was under such a duty , though in fact he was not . |
| 17 | In 1958 he believed that he was founding a republic that would serve France well for many years to come , but he also believed that in the immediate future his presence was essential to France 's safety and renewal . |
| 18 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 19 | He believed that there were ‘ some ’ , but he could n't name a Guards regiment with a black soldier in it . |
| 20 | According to the late Dr. K. R. Gilbert of the Science Museum the slubbing Billy could be unique and he believed that there were only five other Jennys left , all in museums . |
| 21 | He believed that there was a market for very cheap tickets . |
| 22 | He believed that there was a great fund of benevolent feeling in man which could often counteract his egoism , and that man also possessed a moral sense , to which benevolence appeared with a special and attractive quality of moral goodness . |
| 23 | His views were always stern , He believed that there was either good or evil , with no grey area in between . |