Example sentences of "believe that [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of his crew believed that they were sailing into nothingness or that they might sail off the edge of the world . |
| 2 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 3 | There was a time when we naively believed that it was caused by Immune Overload — too many stimulants and not enough rest and nutrition . |
| 4 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 5 | The doctors were diverted into believing that it was related to my stomach . |
| 6 | Specific point of the South Wales police authority 's difficulties , would he not say that at least they 're partly due to the police authority believing that it was going to be er underspending in the current year and being out in its calculations by about two million pounds , would n't you think that that was at least a factor ? |
| 7 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 8 | He still could n't entirely believe it , In the sense that he could not believe that it was happening to him , that he was so vulnerable to such a common , almost hackneyed feeling . |
| 9 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 10 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 11 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |
| 12 | Evans ' team mates are sure to believe that he was tempted into French RU by the pay , reputedly twice that earned by League players there . |
| 13 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 14 | It 's difficult to believe that he was expelled from nursery school at the age of three for being a ‘ smart alec ’ . |
| 15 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 16 | Standing on the beautifully tended grass of Jesus Green and watching a throng of tourists , language students and local people enjoying the tranquillity of the lock , it is hard to believe that it was built for commerce rather than leisure . |
| 17 | Experts believe that they were made in Mortlake between 1630 and 1660 , but it is by no means clear how and when they reached Bratislava . |
| 18 | I believe that it was attached to leather or wood ; perhaps a harness decoration or cabinet . |
| 19 | It is believed that she was attended by Samuel Bowden [ q.v. ] , a physician who lived in Frome , Somerset . |
| 20 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
| 21 | Although during the 1987 congressional inquiry into the affair Poindexter shielded Reagan ( then President ) from any responsibility for the operation , his defence strategy against the criminal charges rested upon the claim that he had believed that he was acting with the President 's authority . |
| 22 | It is believed that it was built as a chantry chapel in memory of Robert de Tattershall who died in 1121 . |
| 23 | First people really believed that it was going to be a temporary dump . |