Example sentences of "believed that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that with such experience she would not have resisted the orders of her assailant . |
| 2 | I believed that with that double victory I had now achieved more than most in British athletics , with the exceptions of course , of Coe , Cram and Ovett . |
| 3 | While the managers ' long-term intention is to have a balance in Europe , Mr Burns believed that with the main continental economies in difficulty , prospects in the short term do not look attractive . |
| 4 | Although I remained resolute that my partnership with Charlie would come to an end the moment I was offered a place at university , I still believed that with his energy and drive , combined with my level-headed approach in all matters financial , we would surely have impressed my father and perhaps even Granpa Charlie . |
| 5 | In his Memoirs he claims feebly he had foreseen the dangers , but believed that with the limited forces available an attack on the Left Bank would have been stopped by the ‘ well-constructed ’ enemy position . |
| 6 | The publication of the tape is likely to cause further concern to Diana who has already told friends that she believed that at least some of her private calls were being monitored and recorded . |
| 7 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 8 | If she ever believed that of him , she would weaken , give in to the powerful attraction , and then she would have to admit there were emotions behind that attraction , emotions that would lead her into heartbreak . |
| 9 | And I believed that to others I who looked thus strangely upon them , I also was strange . |
| 10 | A retired administrator who as a young man had single-handedly turned the tide of mutiny in his district in the North-West Provinces , he believed that since those Homeric days British administration had become dangerously out of touch with the people . |
| 11 | But there were many , including senior ministers , who were highly critical of her decision to continue and believed that despite it she could and should be persuaded to stand down . |
| 12 | Weber believed that despite their best intentions socialists controlling state power would only further the dictatorship of the official rather than the dictatorship of the proletariat . |
| 13 | Their conduct could not have been so described because the court believed that despite its insolvency , it was not inconceivable that the business could have been returned to prosperity . |
| 14 | It believed that under socialism all nationalism would be irrelevant since there would be no need to organise market forces against one another in competing nationalities . |
| 15 | At Rome in the 250s a split occurred between the rigorists led by Novatian who believed that for apostates there could be no restoration in this life , and those who saw no restriction in the Lord 's committal of the power of the keys to bind and loose . |
| 16 | They believed that for once the truth should be told about the difficult life Diana has led and , for the most part , still leads . |
| 17 | Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects . |
| 18 | Although there was widespread speculation as to the authenticity of the leaflets , experts believed that for the first time there was fairly solid evidence to show that the group was experiencing internal problems , with the possibility that a moderate faction had appeared to question the cult of leadership of Sendero leader Abimael Guzmán Renoso and his military strategy to bring down the state . |
| 19 | They believed that in his teaching and life , God had ‘ visited his people ’ and sent a prophet and more than a prophet , an example and teacher of the way of truth and righteousness surpassing John the Baptist ; the ‘ Messiah ’ or anointed leader of ancient expectation . |
| 20 | At the same time he profoundly believed that in the church Jew and Gentile were to be united in one fellowship . |
| 21 | Mr Major talked abundantly , often tediously , about tax , because he believed that in the sanctuary of the polling booth people would feel their fearful hearts pounding against their wallets . |
| 22 | Those who had been watching him work believed that in spite of the traumas , Hopper the actor was a star , and Hopper the director had completed an extraordinarily good film which , according to one description , included some ‘ hauntingly beautiful footage ’ . |
| 23 | Eutyches , archimandrite ( or abbot ) of a monastery in Constantinople , believed that in effect there was only one nature . |
| 24 | Marx believed that in the highest stage of communism human beings would be able to realize — or actualize — their expressive essence , their ‘ species being ’ ( Geras , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Moreover , few believed that in avoiding capitalism Russia must forgo modern machinery and technology . |
| 26 | We observed one very tense episode in which some panel members believed that in the act of creation the panel had been granted independence from the coordinating committee . |
| 27 | In this philosophy he was in accord with Gandhi who believed that in India employers and employees shared a common interest . |
| 28 | His political aims were unclear , and his closest allies believed that in 1845 he was about to betray the company , which was in a state of virtual collapse at the time of Somes 's death . |
| 29 | Bovin believed that in place of such a conference ‘ Afghanistan should conduct direct negotiations with its neighbours , above all with Iran and Pakistan ’ . |
| 30 | At first I was totally humiliated , and then I suppose in my heart , I truly believed that in that one week that he was mine , I could teach him to love me and to forget that Rachel even existed . |