Example sentences of "believed [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he supported reunion with Methodists and believed that it was Canute-like to oppose the ordination of women . |
| 2 | Similarly , those who formed the National Government believed that it was National in the sense that its objective — balancing the budget — was shared by all parties . |
| 3 | In order to make it suitable , Minto believed that it would be necessary to build on at least two extra rooms . |
| 4 | Government recognized that nurses did not take strike action and believed that it was right to have a system of pay determination which meant that they did not lose by that policy . |
| 5 | The earthly family was divinely instituted , and devout families believed that it would be reconstituted in heaven . |
| 6 | I wondered if he believed that it would kill me . |
| 7 | Perhaps , like so many others , he sincerely believed that it was a just war and fought for his values in righteousness . |
| 8 | There was one , but the Austrians had it reduced in size because they believed that it might be used as an observation tower by the recalcitrant Milanese . |
| 9 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 10 | He believed that it could cure ‘ all illness … with the exception of malformation and germ diseases ’ . |
| 11 | For a long time , I believed that it would be possible to overthrow the Irish regime by English working class ascendancy … |
| 12 | Palestine was still an all-Arab question and few believed that it would be recovered save through the united endeavours of the Arab states . |
| 13 | It would have been wrong to propose abolition , and in any case no member of the Commission in fact believed that it should be illegal for a parent to spend money on a child 's education . |
| 14 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 15 | As for the philosophers , Plato thought that all progress consisted in trying to approximate to a pre-existing model in the timeless world of transcendental forms and Aristotle believed that it was the realization of a form which was already present potentially . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Overall , somewhat more than half ( 57 per cent ) thought the law should be obeyed without exception , and slightly less than half ( 43 per cent ) believed that it was occasionally right to follow conscience and break the law . |
| 18 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 19 | The former believed that it was possible to regenerate people ( this applied emphatically to the young ) and , therefore , progress could be assumed . |
| 20 | Half of them ( about a thousand ) thought that extra-sensory perception was a likely possibility and sixteen per cent believed that it was ‘ established fact ’ . |
| 21 | There were a number of rabbits in the net but I never believed that it was the sheer weight of the catch that was responsible . |
| 22 | There was a time when we naively believed that it was caused by Immune Overload — too many stimulants and not enough rest and nutrition . |
| 23 | He fired and believed that it had gone down . |
| 24 | The official believed that it ‘ was quite clear that there was a very general belief in the efficacy of the trial . ’ |
| 25 | On 22 June 1991 , when the draft s 41 report — detailing the fraud — was handed to the Bank , PW believed that it was close to final agreement on the refinancing and the accounts and that BCCI would be saved . |
| 26 | He pointed out that the army version of the shooting prompted the questions : Why , if the army believed that it had caught three terrorists , did it let all of them escape ? |
| 27 | Along with many others , Nyerere believed that it was possible , but he emphasized that this should not involve the rejection of outside influences : |
| 28 | The early Christians believed that it was God 's plan for the Jews to reject Jesus so that his death and resurrection could unite all people with God . |
| 29 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 30 | They believed that it was wrong because Jesus was mixing with people who were not tolerated by strict Jews . |