Example sentences of "he believed that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if he believed that it would kill me . |
| 2 | He believed that it could cure ‘ all illness … with the exception of malformation and germ diseases ’ . |
| 3 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 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 | Lloyd George became convinced that if need due to ill-health and other contingencies were to be met by cash benefits , as he believed that it should , the only financially and politically feasible means was the establishment of contributory insurance . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | When the barrister made his remark he was not aware that no such document existed , although he believed that it did because of what his client had said in evidence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He believed that it was possible to apply scientific principles to each task which would replace the old rule-of-thumb method of working . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He did not believe in the new property tax ; he believed that it would constitute theft from the old ladies living down the road , who would consequently vote against the Tories . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) " . |
| 16 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 17 | 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 . |